It is a problem, because if theoretically Musk were to trademark that character (improbable), Unicode would likely be forced to remove that character and break every instance of it across the internet. Not to mention that anybody using that symbol, which already has an established meaning in mathematics, would be infringing on that trademark.
The one thing that’s kept me going as a Tesla car owner through this is to remind myself over and over, “Elon’s public persona is commodity fetishism, his far more talented employees did literally 100% of the work”
I mean what does the man even do all day while his companies are running themselves? Make bad Elden Ring builds and rampage on Twitter like he’s in the depths of a coke binge, I guess. In terms of actual responsibility for designing and building the cars themselves, he has very little to truthfully speak of.