This is what happens when people who understand physics, materials, and control systems are left to build on their own. Cold-gas thrusters and suction fans do not care about feelings or slogans; they either generate the force required or the car stays on the ground. Years of calculation, testing, and iteration produced something that can leave the pavement and return to it on purpose.
No one who spent four years learning to spot oppression in engineering textbooks helped design the pressure vessels, the actuators, or the flight software. The people who did the work measured results against reality, not against a checklist of social outcomes. Competence was the only filter that mattered.
Progress still depends on those who can make complicated machines function under real constraints. When that ability is valued over credentials that mainly train people to object, the results speak for themselves