From the outside looking in, the behaviour of the FAA looks corrupt. They’re being influenced by someone (Boeing?) to slow down SpaceX because they’re too hard

From the outside looking in, the behaviour of the FAA looks corrupt. They’re being influenced by someone (Boeing?) to slow down SpaceX because they’re too hard to compete with fairly on a technological merit alone. Disagree? Okay, then explain why the FAA just sits there passively seemingly giggling to themselves every time SpaceX makes a typo? Any excuse to press the multi-month pause button is mercilessly exploited. If you think that the government is working with industry to achieve supremacy in space, is this what you would expect to see? Can you imagine if right after signing the CHIPS act the Whitehouse just stood by while some tiny agency just held up a many-billion-dollar fab construction that’s vital to national security!? Someone in power is out to get Elon Musk and/or SpaceX. They’re most likely a competitor or in the pocket of one. Everything I’ve seen in the news fits that theory. The opposite theory of “SpaceX is the world’s best space tech company but also crazy incompetent and deserving endless punishment from every agency” doesn’t hold water. If the agencies cared about the environment or the water or whatever they would be working with SpaceX instead of harming their progress in a way that appears entirely punitive. Hasn’t anyone here been held up by a paperwork troll in your work? Haven’t any of you had this conversation? Secops: “Firewall requests take two months to implement.” Me: “I’m a consultant and this is a one week project. I’m finishing up Friday.” Secops: “That’s your fault for not submitting the request ahead of time.” Me: “It’s Monday morning! I just got here. I haven’t even finished my coffee that I got at the airport on the way here.” Secops: “Your lack of planning is your own fault.” Me: “Auditors prohibit me from working on any projects until the official start date, which is today. My guess though is that the rules will be: x, y, and z.” Secops: “You need to use our form 832b and use the specific IP source and destination addresses.” Me: “Can I have a list of your subnets and their IP ranges?” Secops: “No, that’s a secret. For security!” — this is how a one week project blows out to six months.