1.) Elon fired 80% of twitter and 3 years later it still hasn't collapsed or fallen into technical calamity. Every tech board/CEO took note of that.
2.) Every kid and their sister going to college who wants a middle class life with generous working conditions is targeting tech. Every teenage nerd saw those over employed guys making $600k from their couch during the pandemic.
Were they even releasing new features anyways?
I can't think of any new features that Twitter implemented even the 5 years preceding Musk's buyout.
Becoming the worst place on earth is a far weightier outcome of the aquisition and firings.
Edit: huh, what’s with the downvote, is this wrong? Did I overstate it? Here’s the data: https://www.demandsage.com/twitter-employees/
Take in account, Twitter their front end, the stuff that people interact with was only like 15% of the actual code base. The rest was analytics for the data (selling data, marketing analytic for advertisers etc).
But as they are not reintroducing moderators, the company is "still down by 63.6% from the numbers before the mass layoffs".
So technically, Twitter is probably back or even bigger on the IT staff then before Musk came.