I don't think anyone is elevating them to gods, and also, it's true that no one was seriously working on cheap reusability until SpaceX did it. Yeah sure Space

I don't think anyone is elevating them to gods, and also, it's true that no one was seriously working on cheap reusability until SpaceX did it. Yeah sure SpaceX didn't invent orbital rockets (no one claimed they did!), but they did in fact invent commercially viable reusable rockets, and that's a big deal.