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Those cosmetic items are visible to others in gameplay, so they serve as status symbols.

The features that Twitter is advertising for its premium service all seem to be purely client-side, with the exception of the ‘edit’ button, but that doesn’t seem like a particularly compelling justification for a $3/mo subscription.

To be clear: to my knowledge, Twitter Blue does not include an edit button! I was using it as an example of a "pay-to-win" feature that would burn (free) user's goodwill and is not a good idea in general. The only functional difference I can think of that users will tolerate between free tier and paid tier is probably removing ads

Sadly that is the one thing they are not offering, I would have considered paying for it had they removed ads and promoted tweets etc and I am very infrequent user.

Apples to oranges

They are both non-function-changing, cosmetic changes being sold, right?

What an intellectual dishonest and disingenuous point dude.