That would make a great article, if someone hasn’t already written up that story.
Several people already have, in the 90s and 2000s. NASA was directed to allow commercial space flight independent of itself in IIRC 2004 and they opened a commercial space flight liason office at that time, but it soon became clear that NASA’s definition of “commercial space flight” was pretty much just Boeing and Lockheed. That got knocked back relatively fast, but there was still institutional resistance to SpaceX and at the time Rocketplane Kistler among others - the usual deliberate bureaucratic slowdowns, etc. - but that finally ended in the Muslim Outreach era when it started being clear that it would be private spaceflight or no spaceflight for NASA.