A key point of what is now old tech is/was multiple paths of operations. On the other hand we have what I'd call appification, where there is just a single path

A key point of what is now old tech is/was multiple paths of operations. On the other hand we have what I'd call appification, where there is just a single path and anything else has to be weeded out, for the sake of simplicity and the benefit of the user. As it happens, as of today, Twitter (which provided quite a remarkable number of paths of operation), succumbed to appification and removed the option to retrieve search results ordered by recentness. (Because this is not how you operate it? You do want the most prominent ones, as by Twitter-weight, and nothing else.) As this has been rather crucial to how I operated Twitter, I guess, you have to count me out.