I saw more of the opposite - people dismissing him because of identity politics and just because he's a billionaire. My impression was he had strict requiremen

I saw more of the opposite - people dismissing him because of identity politics and just because he's a billionaire. My impression was he had strict requirements because part of the design is about tradeoffs and cost and the reason this kind of thing takes forever and gets expensive is because of all of the arguing that happens during it. You end up with a design by committee and worse outcome. I'm skeptical of the 'better designs' not having these tradeoffs.