A practical win-win-win outcome might've been for the GameStop board to issue expensive shares to institutional short coverers and then to declare a one-time special dividend-- not quite $300/share, but something that'd appear to serve "the interests of the shareholders".
(Years later, there'd be scholarly works about how the GameStop Maneuver differs from a Ponzi Scheme.)
(Years later, there'd be scholarly works about how the GameStop Maneuver differs from a Ponzi Scheme.)