"actually inventing a rocket" and "handing billions of dollars to a swarm of engineers and thier managers, and actually getting a rocket back instead of having

"actually inventing a rocket" and "handing billions of dollars to a swarm of engineers and thier managers, and actually getting a rocket back instead of having the shirt scammed off your back" are different skills. The latter is valuable because it's rare: ESA, Jeff Bezos, the US Senate, Richard Branson (oooooh richard branson), ULA, etc all tangibly lack it.