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Tesla would exist without Elon Musk. Elon Musk literally simply just bought the company, along with the right to call himself the "founder". Sure without Elon Musk Tesla might be more accurately valued, IE valued significantly less, but it's unclear how much social value is actually created by his showmanship. There's a difference between exchange value and use value.

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Exchange value is use value for the company, because it can make stock deals to obtain things for the same nominal(dollar) amount while giving up much less equity.

Similarly, if the stock is undervalued, it becomes more costly to raise capital in public markets. So hiring a CEO with poor market perception limits a company's options, even if they're internally very effective.

I dont mean to take a position on Musk per se, but I do think there's a reasonable argument that Tesla might actually do better without him. He does bring a certain amount of risk.

I raise this in part because one of the problems with counterfactuals is evaluating a state of affairs that you dont have access to. In fact, evaluation of that alternate state is necessarily biased by the currrent state.

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