The new features Twitter needs might be as simple as implementing new standards that keep the status quo. No tech company produces 100% of the software it relie

The new features Twitter needs might be as simple as implementing new standards that keep the status quo. No tech company produces 100% of the software it relies on and eventually they hit changes that go beyond maintenance and hit “rearchitect the platform”. Just in my own experience I once inherited ~20 .net 3.5 projects that needed to be updated to support tls 1.2 which required going up to 4.5?4.7? Can’t recall beyond it needing a major version update. The company was then hit with the decision of either doing a multi month effort to update all the inconsistencies between those version for the minimum viable product of updates or spend a year ish to get onto .net core and be ahead of the update schedule. That was one set of decisions and work for a team of 8, solely to maintain status quo, for a relatively tiny company. Tech companies as they have all currently organized themselves, cannot just run with minor maintenance