Strange take to be focusing on the business side - the job of the business side is to make sure the organization makes money, according to Musk it's currently l

Strange take to be focusing on the business side - the job of the business side is to make sure the organization makes money, according to Musk it's currently losing millions of $ per day, far more than before, and has lost large parts of its revenue. So by that measure we'd have to conclude the business people were in fact necessary. Although it's hard to say, since the financials aren't published, and a non-negligible portion of the losses will be due to the financial debt that is only a result of the takeover. And the loss in revenue is at least partially attributable to Musk's persona - some of the first companies to pull their ads were car companies that compete with Tesla, eg. But still, the reduced emphasis on moderation, PR, legal..., is arguably a genuine concern for many ad clients. The more pressing question is arguably how necessary some of the engineers were (since quite a few were fired too). So many people have been predicting that the breakdown of the site is imminent, or just a few weeks away, or at least that it will slowly start degrading (with some shifting goalposts, maybe). The question is whether we are really seeing any of that. The site still seems to be functional as far as I can tell - I rarely log in, and I noticed that the "Please login" modal seemed to have some difficulties loading some elements lately - but I couldn't even reproduce the modal now, so maybe they decided to remove it (which would show that they still have the ability to make UI changes). I recently read that third-party APIs were down, but that might also have been a deliberate decision. Sure, they are probably accumulating some technical debt right now, but arguably it's the business side that would currently be the much bigger concern for the survival of the company (if it had to operate under market conditions, rather than being a pet project of one of the richest people on the planet).