The best counter argument to that is that he did manage to predict/make into reality electric vehicles (when going into that industry was crazy) and reusable rockets. If someone makes a thousand moonshot attempts but still succeeds with two that's impressive.

Something is missing here. Once you get two moonshots done, you have free pass to claim anything any number of times with zero results? I cannot agree.

Electric vehicles were the first types of cars invented.

Musk also bought into Tesla.

So its not like he invented some kind of alien technology.

It was always about having good enough marketing to permit 10 years of R&D to make the car actually attractive.

he did manage to predict/make into reality electric vehicles (when going into that industry was crazy)

Nissan might like a word about that.