...and his actions. He's not just a nebulous political creature, thinking thoughts but not acting upon them. He's actually _doing_ things that people might rightly not agree with.
Not to mention, a good chunk of those actual actions have resulted in Twitter being a legitimately worse place for a great number of people to spend time on/engage with, and thus they... leave.
Whenever someone criticizes Elon Musk I just remember he sent a car he drove, a car built by a company he leads, into heliocentric orbit using his own rockets via his own space launching tech company. I don't know how you can talk about the guy without that context. People talk about him like he's just another jerk on Twitter. His car is in space. He's also the wealthiest person on the planet. And his car is in space.
Whenever someone criticizes Elon Musk, it's not about his abilities to launch a car into space.
In fact most of us would much prefer that he focused on his space launching abilities and electric-car making abilities (with the usual caveat that it's not clear how much of both are based on his contributions vs others, but I'm willing to give some benefit of doubt).
He doesn't know anything about tunneling (boring company), mass transit (hyper loop), software (twitter), or social platforms (twitter). And those are the areas he gets criticized for.
Not to mention, a good chunk of those actual actions have resulted in Twitter being a legitimately worse place for a great number of people to spend time on/engage with, and thus they... leave.