I am trying to imagine Andrew Carnegie saying "I have found a way to make steel for 2c per tonne, without coal, and it will be as strong as unobtanium" and the entire western shareholder class of the time sending them his money and then he says "ha ha sorry I can't so fuck you" and .. goes on being US steel and nobody gives a fuck.
You're not wrong. Based on all available evidence, it unfortunately looks like you can get away with a whole bunch of lying without consequences in the current simulation.
We call that lying.