Again, I'm not trying to defend the prick who owns most of SpaceX.

Well, its an open secret that SpaceX has an entire department dedicated to gaslighting Elon into thinking he's in charge.

Maybe Boeing needs one of those.

So what's happened is that a whole lot of people in the media who get their paycheques in part or in full from the MIC are doing all sorts of hand-wringing about the "commercialization of space", when they're really just acting on behalf of their MIC paymasters who are pissed that they can't do the usual old cost-plus grift anymore.

Sure. And I've heard similar critiques of the media whining about the F-35. But when we're pissing away a trillion a year anyway, idk, man. Its nothing I'd applaud on its face.

Especially after the budget-conscious bungles SpaceX has already made (the dirt launch pad that exploded, the Starlink debacles, etc) I'm still highly skeptical that we're going to see the US space program as more than a vehicle launch cheap satellites in another generation or two.