For me it is not a trick question. I would like to understand the motivation of tech leaders who line at Trump's feet. What is the worst that may happen to them if they would ignore Trump? All of them already have their underground bunkers in islands far away from US....

Is it worth groveling at the White House just for Trump to turn around and take 15% of your sales in tariffs anyway?

The article delivered all three. It is a good, thought-provoking read.

It did, and that statement is inaccurate only in the fact that it fails to mention that the driver behind the descent was pure self-dealing avarice.

The author does not seem disappointed because tech leaders have a different political preference.

The author seems to be disappointed because what he thought was the original ethos of Silicon Valley - competition, innovation, risk, and rebelling against the status-quo - is now replaced by oligopolies, risk-aversion and bended-knees.