[whatyesaid]

You're overestimating things like Twitter and Twitch. The reason these layoffs can occur is that these products are solidified, you can't really improve them much, there's not much real work there.

And Twitter apparently had 20 million lines of microservices so it's not like their engineers were doing a good job, despite it being a legacy codebase, all they shipped for 10 years was 1 major redesign and Spaces + NFTs before Dorsey was fully out.

That said if they fired the report moderation team then yes it scales linearly.

[soared]

The consumer facing product is closer to solidified, but advertising, moderation, etc features need to change over time.