I thought he was doing good work until maybe 2015. I was following some six sigma blogs at the time & thinking about going for my black belt. One of them brought up how he undid all of the improvements at the plant in California when Tesla bought it, and the quality issues of car...
2 - coming off the line then. I hadn't really heard much about it. This was the first negative anything I heard about Musk at the time. I dug a little bit and found more stuff buried about how he ignores the SMEs in nearly every endeavor he's a part of, even when...
3 - it was about safety issues because he thinks he knows better than everyone. It completely soured my opinion of him. In my mind he went from Tony Stark to every douchebag manager I'd had who fucked up others good work. Everything about him after that hasn't surprised me.