Right. Tesla going bankrupt would have been the least surprising thing to ever happen. This is news exactly because it is unexpected.
I would also suggest that, like the Wright brothers, Tesla had no choice but to make a number of long term focused decisions because doing anything else would obviously fail.
Two bicycle mechanics in a small town game us the airplane, but there were a lot of smart people that tried to do just that before them and failed.
It's easy because we only talk about the ones that had everything go right for them.