Also, it garnered him “friendship” with Putin. I write friendship in apostrophes because these sociopaths are incapable of grasping the actual concept. Putin is useful to Musk and vice versa. And each thinks he has the advantage over the other. Same with Musk-Trump and Trump-Putin.
The new movie unfortunately didn’t explain it properly, but going into the time distortion just minutes later meant arriving years earlier in the future. That’s why the genetically enhanced apes had arrived generations earlier despite Mark Wahlberg going into the singularity first.
At the end of the movie, Mark Wahlberg goes back to Earth, but the apes presumably followed him decades later, arriving hundreds of years earlier on Earth. That’s why they could change history.