If someone deserves to be called an “idiot” in regards to this story, it’s the headline writer. The article quoted extensively from an anonymous Twitter engineer, and there was nothing from this person making predictions about the “coming weeks”.

I guess the person does think it’s inevitable for the service to continuously degrade over time, and any time in the future is technically included in the “coming weeks”. So, well done headline writer, grab those clicks.

The closest thing I can relate to that, is the Google engineer that claimed the AI was sentient. Everything for he clicks and likes. Long live the content gods.