You'd do a better job convincing me if twitter/X/whatever was actually doing better than before Elon took it over.
Also, everything you explained in your second paragraph I've rarely seen first hand, except maybe the techno-elitism. That I saw more with hubris, especially around "changing the world" with solutions looking for problems like blockchain.
As for the rest? If anything I usually saw the opposite, outside of larger companies where people formed varying clubs/support groups, etc. Every time I saw something in the news about it, it was usually a small group within the company agitating via the media and the fringe ideas were just as often top down from people link Musk, Thiel, etc.
One thing I think we'll mostly agree on is that things have changed, but more so via the standard corporate suffocating pressure to "fall in line". How we perceive that pressure is going to depend on where individuals are slapped down (which can hit people across the political and social spectrum). If anything, it's probably more a sign of how the industry has matured. A great example is Google, which has become a product manager driven company. No longer will some (group) of engineers create gmail/maps/whatever on their 20% time; products are top-down driven with revenue targets that if they're not met are canned.