He literally has children with Shivon, who is an employee / direct reportee informally in at least some of his companies.
Has Shivon been implicated in billions of dollars' worth of export control violations?
(Also not batting for Elon, but you asked for reasons why people would care about this scandal more.)
That's a fair point. I wasn't aware that she had a reporting chain to Musk, but it seems that she did when she worked at Tesla and Neuralink.