Nope. We've been down this road before in another thread. It was wrong then, and its wrong now. I posted evidence of what Musk himself said about how much he himself is involved in the engineering side of what happens at SpaceX. Here, is an excerpt from an interview in which the interviewer asks this question (link to full interview and transcript below).
Interviewer: What do you do when you're at SpaceX and Tesla? What does your time look like there?
Elon: Yes, it's a good question. I think a lot of people think I must spend a lot of time with media or on businessy things. But actually almost all my time, like 80% of it, is spent on engineering and design. Engineering and design, so it's developing next-generation product. That's 80% of it.
Interviewer: You probably don't remember this. A very long time ago, many, many, years, you took me on a tour of SpaceX. And the most impressive thing was that you knew every detail of the rocket and every piece of engineering that went into it. And I don't think many people get that about you.
Elon: Yeah. I think a lot of people think I'm kind of a business person or something, which is fine. Business is fine. But really it's like at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is Chief Operating Officer. She manages legal, finance, sales, and general business activity. And then my time is almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture. At Tesla, it's working on the Model 3 and, yeah, so I'm in the design studio, take up a half a day a week, dealing with aesthetics and look-and-feel things. And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as engineering of the factory. Because the biggest epiphany I've had this year is that what really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. And that is at least two orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself.
Link to interview and transcript
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6W-elon-musk-on-how-to-build-the-future
I also posted quotes from people who actually work at SpaceX including current and former specialists and engineers, stating clearly that Musk is definitely involved in the design and engineering side. The idea that he is "
just a money guy with some ideas" is a falsehood, its hater dogma, from those tall-poppy pruners obsessed with cutting him down to size.
"Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just ‘some very technical work’. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business (but I would say the former takes up much more of his mental real estate). Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best."
- Josh Boehm: former Head of Software Quality Assurance at SpaceX (2012-2015)
"He is very much hands-on. We know that he writes software and does CAD design work - both at SpaceX and at Tesla."
- Anthony Himes:" Flight Hardware Manager at SpaceX (2016-present)
"At Tesla he’s also sometimes found on the manufacturing floor bolting things together on the production line. He says that he enjoys doing that - and it helps him to think.
At SpaceX, he’s a self-taught rocket engine designer."
- Steve Baker: Tesla Manufacturing Team
...and just for people like you, who question his technical value to his companies
Don’t conflate “design” with “engineering,” and certainly not with “rocket science.” Those are all different things, and your implication that he is not of the value to the company that he believes he is, says more about you than it does about him.
Justin Ausanka: Senior Project Manager at NASA
Now, if you want to dismiss this then you are going to have to call all of these people liars.
... and the two fairing halves, and if they can get Starship to fly, that will be100% reusable
