Very questionable decision by Musk to send such an e-mail, which can also be viewed as an insult, in addition to an ultimatum. If a person has their act together, easily can see them taking the 3 months pay and finding another company.
Nah, Musk is definitely a grand chess wizard 8 moves ahead of everyone else. There's no way he might just be a kinda cringey dude who is interested in tech and makes bad decisions pretty frequently
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
A well calculated move straight out of Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War