Musk's playbook is to do the thing that he feels is obviously right, and figure out the consequences later, and because he's enough of a bully and rich enough, the consequences rarely end up being that big a deal. I believe it's ideological, and from that perspective have a hard time disagreeing with his motivations – I disagree with him, but think he's doing what makes sense to achieve his goals which he believes are good for the world.

He's done this with SpaceX many times over, bullying the FAA and the local council in Texas. He's done this with Tesla again and again with crash data and even selling products that don't exist to consumers. He's going to keep doing it until there are actual consequences because it's hard to say it's not a good business decision if you never actually have to pay for the issues you cause.