It’s irrelevant to the overall point and comes across as a defense of Musk by attacking an irrelevant piece of semantics.

For example if people are arguing about pineapple on pizza and you say “pineapple is food so it’s ok on pizza” it’s not addressing the actual arguments being made.

Whatever you want to call it, it’s inherently dishonest to take credit for skills you don’t have and achievements you didn’t earn.