It's useful for him to do everything wrong so humanity can either learn it's not wrong, or confirm it's wrong. He demonstrated we can go further with EVs and se

It's useful for him to do everything wrong so humanity can either learn it's not wrong, or confirm it's wrong. He demonstrated we can go further with EVs and self-landing rockets. And he failed at a dozen other things. Sometimes someone's purpose in life is to show us the path. Sometimes it's to serve as a warning to others. Sometimes both.