All that remains is to explain to Hell the political necessity of buying the game from Ive. Honestly, I didn't expect to see such nonsense from you.
Yes, Hell also needed to be explained to. Yes, he might not have agreed. But then, at least, one could say, "I did what I could."
If the problem is specifically with selling it for money (some people have complexes about this), then one could have offered a bottle of beer and a place in the front row of the audience, as a gift. Ive himself said that he was rooting for Hell.
In general, it's solvable, if there was an awareness of the necessity. What happened in reality is clearly worse.