The sad thing is, some of those people will not have learned anything from what just happened and will absolutely go right back to work for EMu. Not all of them, but some of them.
Rhetoric about cults and sycophants flies around easily, but I'm not being unkind or hyperbolic when I say that a whole lot of people who work at Musk's companies, from execs all the way down to bottom-rung line laborers, are there because they genuinely believe that Elon Musk is our lifetime's
Great Man, that everything he does is like absolutely crucial to the future of humanity, and that by working for him, they are making themselves part of that. That makes it so easy to justify enduring anything without a grudge, even being unfairly fired.