What Twitter did or did not do before is irrelevant. This is about removing parts of a system (regardless of what system) without first understanding the reason

What Twitter did or did not do before is irrelevant. This is about removing parts of a system (regardless of what system) without first understanding the reasoning behind those parts, akin to the actual meaning behind Chesterton's Fence. The speed and breadth of the cuts (not to mention the subsequent frenzied re-hiring of certain people) demonstrates that very little thought went into those cuts, and highlights the parable of Chesterton's Fence quite nicely. First three Google results: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence