Going private, wouldn't it be a bigger distraction for everyone working at Tesla to wonder whether they can find a private buyer or not for their shares and what their shares are actually worth?
I admire his ambition and he is great for Tesla in general but as far as managing a public company his approach hasn't been very successful.
That's about as fair as saying there's a cabal of billionaires shorting Tesla stock and using their media companies to drive the price down every chance they get. Either way, going private eliminates the noise.
I remember when Sarbanes Oxley was passed in 2002. I was in college and one of my professors was advocating becoming a SAP engineer specializing in SOX compliance. The cost of compliance was estimated to be gigantic, which meant lots of highly paid (but boring) work for enterprise programmers.