The guy has made multiple unicorn companies providing services that previously didn't exist to many happy customers across diverse product groups doing things m

The guy has made multiple unicorn companies providing services that previously didn't exist to many happy customers across diverse product groups doing things most people thought was stupid (cost effective electric cars) and/or impossible (cutting the cost of getting to orbit by 90%+). Of course other people are doing the bulk of the work. His job as manager is to give direction on what to work on/ideas to solve problems and provide capital to be expended to do the work itself before the company is turning a profit. To imply that the work would have been done by others if he didn't exist is incorrect, faulty logic. To say that someone else did much of the actual work solving the problems is obvious and how the system works. If Elon wasn't there they would not have been working on solving the problem because some other company doing something else would have hired them. Those other companies could be in other areas or part of the group of companies in those spaces prior to Elon who haven't gotten the job done up to this point, some with decades of headstart on the project.