That's pretty much it. They did act in the best interests which should have been obvious. OpenAI started giving various people, including the engineers a share in the company. A share in the company is only worth something if the company behaves as a company and sam represented the capitalist side of the company while Ilya was focused on the benevolence side. Of course Sam won.

I think this is precisely what happened. Altman did genius level strategy and stacked the company with loyal followers, so that when he went to take over it as a coup it would go smoothly, because all of the financial interest aligned with Altman.

He’s a next level psychopath