It wan’t an inaccurate assessment. SpaceX was working on life support for a crewed module 14+ years before their first successful manned launch. IE: It took t

It wan’t an inaccurate assessment. SpaceX was working on life support for a crewed module 14+ years before their first successful manned launch. IE: It took them longer than Boeing. However the missing context is SpaceX put in 8+ years into the project before getting the award which offset most of the issues. So it worked out well for NASA, but SpaceX was approaching it more as a prestige project than a profitable one.