Melvin Capital play dead only, maybe waiting price die down then cash out minimal losses

I get that interest is being paid, and ideally that shares brokered on a short position would need to be paid according to current share price
I'm looking at it ominously / bodoh view, such that eventhough publicly they declare that they are in deep shit, but whos to say that they didnt beg/cut a deal with their broker to hold off on closing the position first, but play dead to the public hoping that they run out of steam to the share price at least normalizes a bit.