I don't have any answers, just questions. The biggest question is why anyone wouldn't want this looked at. If the system isn't working correctly it should be fixed, if it is working correctly and not producing errors then we move on.
The primary problem here seems to be that it's Musk looking into it.
Because there's never been an indication that something isn't working as expected until a billionaire said it wasn't.
Let me go through another exercise. In the military we did quarterly IT audits. A handful of FNG's would walk around building to building and physically inspect every single thing with a service tag or SN on it, as well as a bunch of stuff that didn't have it but got labels placed on it. It was cross-referenced to a spreadsheet and if anything was missing or 'appeared', someone's job was to track down the 5w's on it.
We'd do this for a few thousand devices, every quarter. It worked really well.
Now it would be really easy to question this method and the results, despite the fact it
already goes above and beyond what most orgs would bother with. How do you know the FNGs were doing their job? How do you know they didn't transpose letters and fuck up inventory? How do you know there wasn't ghost equipment stored above the ceiling when they showed up? etc etc etc. You can't track down all of that but that still doesn't mean you aren't going above and beyond to do the job required, to support the mission you've been tasked to do.
I don't fucking know, nor care, why some dates associated with age columns in a half-century old DB are showing values that don't make sense (cuz it's not my forte), and I sure as shit don't want a billionaire to decide how that should be changed, in the same way I wouldn't want elon fucking musk deciding how the military unit I was a part of did internal physical asset inventorying, cuz that's not his forte either.