A.) Meta’s issuing new shares for this, so it’s shareholders, not the company, that are going to pay his tax bill.

B.) The deal is issuing non-voting shares so he still holds the majority of shares that matter after this.

Yes, the classic blunder of the new coffee house first timer: ordering cases of canned tomatoes when none of their menu items use tomatoes.

I would say that it’s doesn’t count as a “5G language” if you have to understand and check the underlying “assembly code” it outputs every time you use it.