Yeah, it may seem an odd comparison but the tone and thoughts expressed here resemble community complaints back in 2004 that serious "uber power sellers" made a

Yeah, it may seem an odd comparison but the tone and thoughts expressed here resemble community complaints back in 2004 that serious "uber power sellers" made after eBay started really messing around with its pricing and policies too much and too often. Within a couple years, sellers realized they had to diversify away from eBay and AMZN effectively captured a lot of that value by creating the third party platform. eBay then, now Twitter and any platform with some critical mass still has to be careful about policy changes like this; they can easily create enough animosity to alienate their most innovative users, motivating them to support other platforms and eventually flee entirely. This pattern has played out a number of times elsewhere; Twitter isn't invincible. If a platform isn't really an open commty standard and shows it doesn't appreciate your contributions why build on them? And why not instead figure out how to organize other disgruntled users to build something better that addresses their most apparent shortcomings?