[skissane]

One can make legitimate criticisms without engaging in the flamewar style of "Elon Musk is a welfare queen", as the great-grandparent comment does.

That kind of unnecessarily inflammatory language distracts from serious discussion of criticisms.

[enlyth]

I think a lot of people are frustrated about how so many idolize him to the point where anything he is involved in is immune to criticism.

[skissane]

I worry that the opposite problem also exists – that if one disagrees with some criticism of Elon Musk or one of his companies, one is sometimes then accused of "idolising him" or of viewing him as "immune to criticism".

I think the vast majority of SpaceX fans would agree there are valid criticisms of Elon Musk. A couple of obvious ones: (a) his timelines are usually overly optimistic – he delivers a lot, but he very often delivers it later (sometimes even a lot later) than he initially said he would; (b) sometimes he speaks off-the-cuff too much (especially on Twitter) and ends up saying things he (very likely) later regrets saying (such as the 'pedo guy' episode, or the 'taking Tesla private' episode)