It is not about Gen-X people. If you pay attention what he has promised and failed to deliver on. He promised to get rid of bots on Twitter and all that he has done is to make the problem worse and saying that he owns the contents of the tweets so AI companies needs to pay for access to create more sophisticated bots.
Now, if people can't view tweets without being logged in to Twitter, there's absolutely no reason to share them at all (i.e. this has led to r/worldnews switching to Mastodon links to share Ukraine war news, which in turn is a convoluted path of telegram and cross-posting from various sources).
The attempt to monetize the blue checkmarks showed very fundamentally he has absolutely no idea what Twitter's value actually was.
If things continue to improve this way I may just buy a blue check. Not because I need it but because I think the platform is actually going in a good direction.