Oh horse hockey. SpaceX has come a lot farther more quickly than CxP would ever had. SpaceX used what works, not re-inventing everything because they (CxP) had buckets full of money.
Cargo and passenger runs to LEO is a great example of how commercial providers can free up NASA to do the blending edge stuff.
Oh, and NASA uses commercial providers for space to ground communications for a number of missions.
EGGSACTLY Batman.
Same thing happened when Man explored the New World. Governments (NASA) blazed the trail then Free Enterprise came in and made it work.
I see so many FReepers on the Space threads claiming NASA should be phased out. No, NASA should concentrate on blazing the trail and establishing a base on the Moon and then Mars. Then set the Free Enterprisers lose and let them make it pay off.
You are gonna need Space stations around both the Moon and Mars as well as Earth lots of opportunity for Free Enterprise to get in their and make it work. Especially when we finally establish a Lunar Base!