It seems like the lost staff were somewhat necessary for twitter’s old model, since the company seems to be losing advertising revenue. The technical service is

It seems like the lost staff were somewhat necessary for twitter’s old model, since the company seems to be losing advertising revenue. The technical service is also becoming less reliable, which supports other comments here that it is building up technical debt. But I think that Musk had an idea for transforming Twitter into a new distribution for distributing music and video. It might be easier to transform the company and build the new service after breaking down the original model. Maybe simply creating a new startup without messing with Twitter would have been more prudent, but probably less exciting for Musk.