Businesswise Stipe vs Jones will make sense for Jones. Less risky and with higher pay than fighting Tom which could fatally backfire on Jones ending his career with a loss. That's not good for someone who wanted to be the goat.
Giving Blaydes the rematch with Tom will be good to see how it would have happened if the injury hadn't happened. Tom's belt is fake. UFC just made it so that Jones will not be stripped. But he should have been stripped. In an interview, Tom also said so.
If you think that Tom backfiring Jon Jones will end his career, you are very wrong, dude. Jon Jones has one of the best UFC stats, he is a pure beast machine that destroys everybody. Even if he has one lose, how do you think that will end his career? There we have people with multiple loses like Nate Diaz and they still get millions of dollars in fights. Here we have Tony Ferguson, Conor McGregor, Volkanovski and many more who will sell the most show tickets and earn the most money, they are still one of the most demandable fighters and how do you dare to say that one loss will end Jon Jones's career? No way man but this will definitely build and give a huge boost to Tom's career but I don't think that will happen, Jon Jones is still a beast, it's not only about training, he is very talented, this guy has ideal body structure and ideal force to beat the shit out of any UFC fighter and don't forget that he is in UFC heavyweight division.