Branson's spaceships are a)barely even spaceships and b) somehow manage to explode more than Musk's despite him only making like 3 of them.

See thats the problem. He needs money to do it, but dragons can do all the cool stuff without their hoard. So they can become kickass class traitors who burn castles and eat monarchs, but a billionaire class traitor will just get his money taken and then he's just a regular class traitor.