He's not a villain. He's still the CEO of Tesla, and he'll be back as sitting chairman in two years. He just did something dumb in August and got a slap on the wrist for it.
He also called the man who got the Taiwanese boys out of the cave a "pedophile" because Musk felt dissed that his ridiculous ideas didn't work and wanted the attention back on him.
Amazed people took it seriously