Exactly! It does no one any good to have engineers sitting at home while everyone else is hands on at the factory. How can a closures engineer (as an example) be helpful if he/she doesn’t have his/her butt down in GA seeing firsthand issues? Answer: He/she cant.
Those panel gaps don’t get solved by running a computer simulation in a home office. Optimus doesn’t become the next best thing since Flufferbot until somebody actually puts it on the production line and sees firsthand it would be better off sweeping the floors with a toothpick.
People thinking ‘this’ is Elon being heavy-handed?
Big boy pants required when trying to save the world from itself.