The fact that it's sleazy whether you're initiated or not and the disclosure of that behavior is bad PR for the perpetrator, which acts to discourage it in the future.
What's so sleazy about it? What exactly should have been disclosed here? The fact that the writer of the opinion piece didn't care to have it published himself, but also didn't care to not have it published?
It's still important to float the info up, so the general public can see -- so we could vote with our feet (if we feel we need to).
Sounds pretty normal, but when you attack Elon in any way, the former cryptocurrency now-tesla/spacex shareholders lose their tempers as if it's unfair.
do you think the behaviour is fair?
If you don't think it's fair, what's unfair about it, exactly? If we're talking about fairness, shouldn't we have to weigh in all the times Elon was running his mouth on Twitter?