Had Allen given final instructions that the entire LCM be cleaned out and melted for scrap, would you still think that he needed an excuse? It was his money; he had no reason to explain what he did with it or with the toys that he purchased.
If he had done that, that would be fine (although that may also have triggered the "Fine, I'll drive the fuck up there with a U-Haul and add you to a long list of dot.coms who made my life annoying) but he did one worse.
He gave a serious damn about at least AI, and agreed to take care of it. In the end, Paul failed.
C