>> Or was there really tons of dead weight at Twitter?

elon fired > half the company. site runs reasonably well. personally havent seen issues.

main question is what these people did.

and being in big tech seen this up close. original leadership leave, replace by professional managers. Professional manager have no vision or care about product. only goal to grow head count..get promoted.

amazes me why so many people triggered by musk firing half company. class of worker producing no economic value but paid hundreds of thousands USD per year..catered food.. it massive GRIFT. business is business, not charity.