Everyone believed what? You seem to be unaware or Elon time or how Elon has made predictions in the past, generally not that "this will happen by date X" but t

Everyone believed what? You seem to be unaware or Elon time or how Elon has made predictions in the past, generally not that "this will happen by date X" but that "this cannot possibly happen _before_ date X". Which are very different statements. There is a contingent of people who want to retcon any statement ever to paint Elon as a fraud, when reality is much too subtle for trivial blanket labels like you want to apply.