People all seem to believe Twitter is coal powered and some special magic is required to keep throwing coal into the oven. Even under such a ridiculous belief,

People all seem to believe Twitter is coal powered and some special magic is required to keep throwing coal into the oven. Even under such a ridiculous belief, I'm of the headspace that Elon did keep programmers in particular above all else. However if that's not the case, I think anyone with only modest programming experience can surmise that surely the Twitter source is not such a tangled and complicated mess that any new hire can't grok it in a few days and take over. Alas if somehow that also is not the case, then the ultimate failure of Twitter is the original management for letting the code become unmaintainable such that only a select few in the world can work it. And that would be zero fault of Elon's.