Former twitter engineer here. Maybe he paid more attention at his other companies but Elon was comically clueless about how the twitter machine worked. Hiring geohot and thinking a firmware cracker could make heads or tails of a massively distributed system was pure idiocy.

Totally. Matt Yglesias calls this the “crank realignment.”

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for