[...] and think about how the only real difference between the two is how effective their PR handlers are and how much they listen to them

I mean... I've got no major love for Gates, but a dozen kids from as many mothers and a public ket habit say otherwise. Gates is a businessman and conducts himself like one, i.e. professionally. Musk is an unloved child and conducts himself like one.

Say what you want about Gates being a billionaire or how he was a ruthless and unempathetic businessman in the 90s, but you would never find him firing the entire customer support team at his business and setting it to auto-reply to all incoming communications with the poop emoji. You wouldn't find him publicly lambasting his daughter on social media about her gender preference. You wouldn't find him throwing Sieg Heils at a pep rally. PR team or not, these are not things that Bill Gates does. PR team or not, these are all things that nobody was able to prevent Elon Musk from doing.

I like Bill Gates an awful lot more than I like Elon Musk and I kind of don't like Bill Gates. But he is interested in presenting and maintaining decorum. These men are not the same.