Yes, clearly that was not true what I wrote there, and I really am sorry for that.
Not to try to minimize that, I misread that post:
where Max in another thread stated that it was $10k or less. Those posts were after those negotiations around GH collapsed, so I wrongly assumed it applied to them. However, re-reading it, it clearly was about the original MM plotter.
With what @sargonas wrote above, the offer they gave him was fair and worth exploring further (from my point of view).
Again, I am really sorry for that.