It does seem like the whole organization was "born in conflict", starting with Elon and Sam.
Then Reid resigned because of a COI, someone whose wife helped start the "offshoot" Anthropic, and then there was Elon's employee and mother of his children, etc.
I was going to say that some reporters weren't doing their jobs this whole time, but actually there are good links in the article, like this
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-13/republica...
It was reported that 3 directors left in 2023.
But yeah I agree it's weird that none of the breathless and short articles even linked to that one!!! (as far as I remember) That's a huge factor in what happened.