To extend your metaphor, yes, the Twitter executives probably feel like that. However, it is not the fault of the third party developers that Twitter can't be

To extend your metaphor, yes, the Twitter executives probably feel like that. However, it is not the fault of the third party developers that Twitter can't be arsed even to get it's own bucket and take a turn milking the cow. Moreover, in that metaphor, a lot of the third party devs have been bringing grass and other tasty treats for the cow, looking after it better than the Twitter execs, who would have been happy just to let the cow wander around uncared for until it fell in a ditch somewhere. At the end of the day, yes, it is their cow, but they are acting extremely ungratefully to the people who helped them build and popularise their platform.