Nope. I can live with the downsides of anti-intellectualism in trade for escaping the cult of "genius". People who claim to know better than the rest of us are dangerous.
I'm not from the US, but I'm pretty sure that the average person in most states has never heard of either of the people you mentioned.
A movie titled 'Steve Jobs' featured half a dozen Hollywood stars and was nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress at the Oscars - and that's not even the one that Ashton Kutcher starred in. I work in a children's book store and there is a 'Who is Steve Jobs?' book sitting next to 'Who is Barack Obama?'. I think you're wrong.
I'm still glad that the U.S. has a healthy distrust of intellectuals and academics.
I appreciate the work of all of such people, but I reject setting them off from the rest of humanity. We are all frail, fallible humans.
> Despite the rise of Silicon Valley and its technoelites, the Revenge of the Nerds in the South Bay has managed to line stock portfolios without moving the needle on America’s cultural values. Jocks still rule high schools that spend millions on new football stadiums while starving the arts.
Elon Musk isn't considered a national hero or someone to look up to (in most parts of the US - not talking about cali).