Elon Musk is a systems thinker. He has a good grasp about thinking about things from an exponential rather than linear point of view and he has expansionist delusional thoughts. He sure as hell understands bottlenecks.
Like a lot of original thinkers Galileo, Socrates, Ghandi, Jesus Christ etc. he makes a lot of people uncomfortable. But there hasn’t been a single Elon Musk run company that isn’t really good. His companies are world changing thanks to his vision and risk taking. He made electric cars a reality. Starlink is making the internet universally available in the globe and so on. Tesla - Focus on Simplicity
So why is that smart people I know feel that Twitter has gotten worse?
Well this is my theory.
Society itself today is not well regulated.
Elon has chosen to initially destabilize the network by making big changes like removing the ability of users to Blocking people on social media.