If only that truly was a unique trait…

I do think Musk correctly identified excess staff and irresponsible spending, but where he screwed up was being his toxic self which drove away even more of the audience and almost every big advertiser.

Musk fired people before understanding what they did at Twitter. The best example is how he fired a Twitter employee who criticized him but it turned out to be the owner of a company Twitter bought and he had enormous legal protection and when Musk found this out he was suddenly much nicer to him.

And Twitter is running fine without all the excess staff

I mean, I don’t think it makes money and it is a cesspool of misinformation, hate, porn, and bots, but technically, it is fine.

It has had revenue declines and moderation problems, but it is still operating at internet scale, serving hundreds of millions of users, generating billions in annual revenue, and remaining technically stable. That’s not ‘fine,’ but it’s also not a failed or non-functional system.