If it was Musk's plan to look foolish and petulant by being forced to buy a company for what he said he would buy it for after briefly trying to pull out of a deal, he succeeded wildly.

But there is no apparent benefit to this: He paid what he had already guaranteed he would pay and received what he at various (but not all) times said he wanted to buy, just with extra steps that made him look worse.

Elon is that another one of your alts?