Yeah, unfortunately Musk has done so much incompetent stuff that it's not as easy to make the case that the Twitter implosion is due to the staff reduction rather than one of the twenty other boneheaded things that have happened. The narrative could totally settle on: "The massive staff cuts would have worked out just fine if he hadn't also taken on too much debt in the financing and scared off advertisers with his own personal tweeting and gotten rid of verification and started promoting the replies of paying customers and turned off non-logged-in access and search engine visibility." Personally I think it is all of the above.