I do appreciate the "buying opportunity" that we've been provided lately. However, the blatant market manipulation as documented by @Papafox and others will, in my opinion, never stop.
I say this for the following reasons:
1. Elon Musk has disrupted or is in the process of disrupting extremely profitable industries so for their own survival they need to stop him. 2. There's too much money to be made manipulating the stock. This is the more important reason, since unlike the industries which will eventually disappear, the "Street's" greed will never go away.
Except that manipulating the stock doesn't stop him. It makes no difference for Tesla if the SP is 200 or 400 if they don't plan on selling new stock to raise capital, which they don't need to do.