You can ignore Boeing's CEO but you can't ignore the get out of the way guy who enabled the launch of a 2x improvement on the SaturnFive rocket that cleared the tower and went supersonic on new cleansheet 33 rocket engines.
As Musk put it, “Aspiring to have no flame diverter in Boca, but this could turn out to be a mistake.” It probably was a mistake that critically damaged the booster’s maneuvering, but they also want to learn how much they absolutely need to build on Mars.
In my opinion, Musk will be much more better without the attention-seeking that led him to buy Twitter, an outrage machine, instead of focusing on his two very impactful companies (SpaceX and Tesla).