> HN is incapable of separating the product from the man.

It sounds unreasonable when phrased that way, but it isn't unreasonable at all for two reasons:

1) The man himself is tied intimately with this company, and he has a deep-seated political ideology. It's deeply rooted enough in him that he's already done things which cost the companies he runs millions upon millions of dollars. His top priority is not to you, the user, or even to his businesses, it is to his political agenda.

2) The man is drug user, who appears not to have been incredibly stable before the drugs. There is a non-zero chance that you will build complicated tooling around this only to have it disappear in a few months after Elon goes on a bender and tweets something bad enough to make even the his supporters hate him. That's a big risk.

Thank you for providing an actual reasoned argument. I didn't completely agree with the initial premise that you can separate a product from its owner/creator anyway, but you gave a solid argument that's making me reconsider my other beliefs.