Imagine having hobbies and ppl getting mad you do something outside your job.
But you do need a distraction from how badly your businesses are being run.
It is still trading above the IPO price. It could have gone better, but other IPOs have done significantly worse. It succeeded in turning Musk into the first ever US dollar trillionaire, and while he has lost that status again, he’s not far off winning it back-odds are decent he will, sooner or later; and I doubt anyone else will be joining that club for a while.