To Musk haters, any bit of news concerning Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, etc. is just waiting to be spun into a negative headline that can then be an excuse to whine about him. Somehow the smear campaign against him seems to be more effective than most in shaping opinion in the tech sphere. I've noticed coworkers whom I thought were reasonable rational people turn into playground-bully types since the Twitter acquisition, bringing him up in work-related chatrooms just to insult him, sharing hit pieces, memes and tweets with the same intent, etc. Others seem afraid of getting cancelled for praising anything he does, and preface any positive or neutral statement about him with "I think he's a <some negative trait>, but...".