Ok, I understand Elon wanting to reduce the staff and focus on engineering on some level. I don’t agree with his decisions, but I can of understand the motivation on some level. He wants to focus on a few very important things and discard everything else.<p>What I don’t understand is: Don’t you want your people to be able to focus on their jobs and not deal with nonsense like this?<p>This is why you have good HR people. This is why you have a good communications department.<p>How does he expect to recruit talented people when it looks like a shit-show from the outside?<p>I don’t know the typical demographic of Ars Technica readers, but there’s not a lot of people on the comment board rushing to defend him.<p>The Elon fans I know seem to hold out that he may pull something out of his back pocket, but they also seem to qualify it with being disappointed with his current performance.<p>To be honest, I would love to hear someone tell me why I am completely wrong in my assessment. What do you think I’m missing?