First of all, he’s not going to walk away. He can’t. He knows if he does the stock price will drop and his net worth will drop and given his mess in Twitter/X it’ll further screw’s him up. His entire thing about this is so that he can maintain his richest person in the world status, nothing more.

So, no, he’s not really walking away.

But, even if he does, depending on who they get, it might be a net positive for Tesla in the long run.