That shouldn’t affect Grok’ coding ability. How often are people discussing politics with Claude code? Writing decent code is just hard and it’s not just Grok.
Navigating astronomically huge fundamentally not so hard but still really tangly and hairy projects requiring both excellent short- and long-term vision in an overheated domain with angry people and lots of money is a skill all of its own.
The practical reality is that the Chinese and American models might have very different politics. But the most relevant factor in model performance is the quality and volume of training data, not ideology of the base model. Unless you are suggesting something very particular about the way Grok was neutered.
If you are spending all your time having to re-train because the boss doesn;t like the output, it will hamper coding