Ah this old Musk-Hater mantra. The 'Gwynne' does everything trope. Gwynne is an excellent manager and I don't want to say anything bad about her and SpaceX is

Ah this old Musk-Hater mantra. The 'Gwynne' does everything trope. Gwynne is an excellent manager and I don't want to say anything bad about her and SpaceX is lucky to have her but the idea that she is 'main driver' is just idiotic. It is counter to everything you read about SpaceX. It is counter to all the experience reports from people within or from outside of SpaceX. Neither Gwynne nor any of the other original leaders, Mueller or Königsmann seem to agree with the assessment. This trope seems to mostly come from an time where Tesla was not doing so well in 2017 and everybody that didn't like Elon was saying 'see Tesla is going to the shitter, he doesn't have Gwynne that is the reason SpaceX is successful'. Tesla of course now is incredibly successful without having a Gwynne and that somehow is just lucky or something. For a while people also used to say that JB was why Tesla was technically successful, he was the mastermind behind all the engineering at Tesla and without him would fail to innovate. Gwynne could leave SpaceX tomorrow and SpaceX would continue to do very well. The head of HR for example has been with the company since Falcon 1 days and could take that job and do a good job as well. Elon could likely do much of it himself but it would talk away time he would much rather spend with the engineering team.