It's wild when you see these kinds of takes, because ultimately Elon has hired smart people and they would have built a R1T competitor, not the Cybertruck.

The idea of making an electric truck is a GOOD idea, but building one that is completely out of left field in terms of design is NOT. Tesla would have had a majorly successful pickup truck had they just built a normal ass pickup truck.

Acting like this was just some sort of "risk taking seat of the pants" maneuver is just absolving him of responsibility.

Quite literally snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.