The collaboration with GE is what helped determine what SGLB needed to research and build. The collaboration helped both companies. IHMO, there was some monkey business at the end, but it was definitely worth the time and resources invested (at least from SGLBs standpoint).
It certainly got a lot. We got rid of the weak, irrational and selfish 800 pound gorilla that has a terminal virus and is willing to make bad decisions in attempt to grasp the last breath of air before the ground swallows it whole.