According to Billet themselves, they heard nothing about compensation or payback until about 3 hours after the original GN video went live… Which Billet hadnt even replied to before Linus made his post saying they’ve already made the deal on compensation.
As I wrote elsewhere, his head is very probably at keeping people employed, after having over estimated his steady means of payment. Now he is in a pickle and needs to make ever more money to balance that humongous liability.
This screams KPI to me. It’s self imposed bullshit thst leads to cutting corners like this.