Not really, it was a publicity stunt for sure, but it was that or a tank of water/block of concrete/some other mass simulator.

The real crime is the space pollution. Not the other aspects, they were needed for validating the rocket.

He did it purely to spite the actual founders of Tesla, whose car that was supposed to be. There was a long legal battle over the first cars off the line, and because Musk has always been a giant pissbaby, he decided to send it into space as a "There, now no one can have it" move.

Honestly, I already forgot the stunt existed. It just never resonating as anything that mattered.