I believe he was honest when he spoke about how Twitter should be a neutral public square with no political leanings and so on. But it's one thing to want something, another to have a plan for it, and yet another to execute that plan properly.
He thought he can improvise and good things will happen. Instead he got tricked by wingnuts into destroying his $44B investment.
BTW it's funny if you think about it. First he had the poll, restoring Trump won the poll, and THEN elon said he "always believed banning a sitting president is a great injustice that should be corrected". He *always* believed that. But only *after* the poll.
The sad thing is the poll was something like 51% vs 49%.
"How to alienate half your audience in... one steps."