I think the turning point was calling that diver that saved those kids a pedophile after they rejected his dumbass submarine idea. That’s when I went from thinking he was a force for good to realizing he was just another egomaniac with a temper he couldn’t control. It wouldn’t surprise me if the whole going to Mars thing was part of a manic episode where he thought he could go there and play Emperor but because he’s a billionaire it resulted in him at the helm of a spaceship company whose engineers figured out how to make launches very efficient.
And I think the Twitter thing was because he wanted to be able to do something about the people bad mouthing him on the platform. I wonder if he offered spez a bunch of money to ruin Reddit for the same reason. And if I’m right, I wonder how he feels about a bunch of those people just finding new platforms to continue disrespecting him on (and, at least in my case, glad to be done with the toxic hell Reddit had become).