X has nothing to do in this comparison.

Use Grab a lot and I don't consider it a super-app. It truly is the Ride Hailing/Food delivery service app to use in certain parts of SE Asia. WeChat has a massive ecosystem in that its chat, payments, and a million company built "apps".

Kind of, but not exactly. Super-apps like WeChat have a huge number of independent apps within it, operated by third-parties. Apps like Grab are more like different divisions within the same organisation. So Grab is more like Uber + Uber Eats + InstaCart all operated by the same company, inside a single app. But sometimes people call things like Grab super-apps as well. I think it’s probably wrong to describe something as a super-app unless it has third-party apps within it.

Not just Grab, most of tech giants in Asia (granted, I only know about the sinosphere) pursuit the "super app" idea. Here in Vietnam even the bank apps try to be super apps, it's somewhat hilarious but part of asian tech identity that makes us unique compare to the western tech scene.

Way off-topic, but is there a betting pool that Elon Musk is going to make it mandatory for the government agencies to use Super-X to do their work? And maybe for citizens too? It will obviously fail-whale all the time, but hey, he'll ignore the parts where it's not working when stroking his ego.

Somewhere there's a Dr. Strangelove kind of comedy where a wrongly addressed tweet sends the nukes flying, because the competent engineers on X will make an API over tweets, you see...