Very young for so many accomplishments.
I like him for many reasons. Like you, his fearless attributes, willing to show he is human despite sometimes acting silly. Brings his little kid to events and is playful with him. Then there is the genius in everything he says and does. Like a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci, speaking on a variety of scientific subjects not even dreamed of by others, and then attempting to make his dreams a reality.
Others knocked him for dreaming of building spaceships, electric vehicles, tunneling machines, electric utilities and batteries, internet satellites, brain implants to manipulate tech, robots, etc. Individually, each sounded nuts. But look at how they come together to accomplish his long-stated goal of going to Mars. He is a 4D chess master while others play tic-tac-toe.