Otherwise it is difficult to see how they could still succeed, even if they ever manage to produce a perfect FSD.
He brought this on himself.
He has been working extremely hard to extract as much value as possible out of Tesla, at an unprecedented rate. He wants to be paid more than the company has ever made selling cars! Comparable CEOs take small or no salary and make their money by growing the value of their equity. Musk wants to improve the value of his massive existing equity and be paid tens of billions of dollars on top of that, in multiple packages. Before his first payout got held up in court he was already pressuring the company to give him another unprecedented handout.
To state the obvious, nobody becomes the wealthiest person in the world by not caring about money. They might pretend to not care, but acquiring that level of wealth takes a lot of dedicated focus to accomplish.
And that's not even considering how a change of heart would probably hurt his government connections and other funding sources in the near future.
His best chance is possibly to stay on course but tone it down, and generate some (at least perceived) successes with his companies. If he can stay in the game for another couple of years, I'd bet consumers will have mostly forgotten and focus on the products they're getting. I'm not exactly a fan of the CEOs of most companies I'm a customer of. Musk managed to be too much for many, but I don't think that'll stick for very long.
Even if he steps away completely, the brand is still damaged and the competition is catching up pretty fast.
Do any of those have something to do with making better cars?
He should apologise,stay quiet, not get involved in politics or try to influence elections in Europe by supporting far right or other extreme parties.