Sure, because they could get the information they want without having to wade through the mountains of crap you’re pumping out of the septic tank into your user

Sure, because they could get the information they want without having to wade through the mountains of crap you’re pumping out of the septic tank into your users faces. You’re optimising the wrong metric you fucking clown. Tommy doesn't optimize Instagram metrics. Instagram does. Tommy doesn't have users. Instagram does. Tommy doesn't pump "mountains of crap out of the septic tank into" users faces. Instagram does. Tommy pumps out whatever content he wants to the people who follow him. It's clear from the quote that OP thinks Tommy works at Instagram and is criticizing what he think is an Instagram employee. It's not even apologia for Instagram, it's just Tommy's statement of belief that Instagram won't be negatively impacting users' time spent with these changes. There's no value statement at all from Tommy. It's not even a "ridiculous idea". It's just that Tommy thinks these changes will increase users' time spent on Instagram. You're just imputing mountains of additional context into what he says.