Ok but ITER was much more than engineering: soft diplomacy, supranational bureaucracy, manufacturing modernisation. Musk comes from a different era and a differ

Ok but ITER was much more than engineering: soft diplomacy, supranational bureaucracy, manufacturing modernisation. Musk comes from a different era and a different environment but, again, launching rockets successfully, with humans in them safely going and coming back, was achieved well before him. Stable nuclear fusion is still unclaimed as a milestone, even if sustainable nuclear fusion might well come from different, smaller approaches the likes we are seeing from United Kingdom and South Korea.