These people who think he’s playing 4D chess are the new QAnon class. They keep deciphering his shit looking for hidden meaning or genius when the reality is much more simple: the motherfucker is just really that dumb.
What Elon is doing is a revolt by entrepreneurial capital against the professional-managerial class regime that otherwise everywhere dominates (including and especially large tech companies), and that same PMC (which includes the media) is treating it as an act of lèse-majesté.