Shot by SEALs and then dumped in the ocean is a suitable end for OBL.
While I understand the skepticism surrounding the standard story, I don’t see much reason to objectively disbelieve it. The full story, at least as detailed in _No_Easy_Day_, is mundane enough to be believable.
As for “giving up secret stealth tech”, abandoning a crashed “stealth” helicopter under the circumstances (invading a tacitly friendly country for assassination purposes) wasn’t much of an option.
It was a great and timely story with all the right endings and one obama rode back into office. It must be true.
Besides, it's not like there are rules and regulations against telling stories, right?