It does however set a precedent for other celebrities and people going forward

The precedent is "you need to jump through a series of legal hoops and build up a legal army in order to secure what was already supposed to be yours to begin with".

It would have been better if it was one of the likeable celebrities. Like Keanu Reeves.

It wouldn't matter, because we're talking about an entrenched legal precedent not a likeability contest.

In some sense, it begins to feel like all that sovereign citizenship bullshit. People being fed this narrative that you have to perform an elaborate, esoteric legal dance in order to have your humanity recognized by the state bureaucracy. It creates the (false) impression that there's One Neat Trick to having your civil rights acknowledged and respected, and you just need to be savvy enough to speak the magic words and perform the ritual dance. In truth, you're in a boxing match with a gorilla.