>>21397071A lot of the ideas seem to come from Musk, people say he's not really involved in the companies but he holds the position of lead engineer. People who have worked for him say he really doesn't like no for an answer, so if he comes up with some wild concept then he just wants people to work on that and see if it works or not. Like when they didn't have a flame trench for the first launch, which turned out to be a really bad idea lol. But he just wants to delete as many parts as possible so he insisted that they try it out. Here's a clip of actuators on the tower that are also being simplified
