The US should be blessed that Saudi is so bad with its money and so willing to subsidize Americans.

It destroyed the money of people who had bought up medallions. That's it. Having medallions was not a long term solution when the city can now charge rideshare services for miles/minutes/rides on the road without any hard cap for politically connected incumbent players.

Since they're public, its any shareholder and the public market. But that also means they're probably not still raising rounds like they were.