[DeathArrow]

>X showed that you can fire ~80% of your employees and the product could still exist.

Most fired employees weren't producing profit. Most were censoring, making politics or concerned themselves with corporate bureaucracy, drawing charts and making presentations.

[moomin]

You say that, but the company valuation and revenue fell through the floor, to an extent that everyone can tell, even though the reporting burden is much less now the firm is private.

Maybe some of the activities you decry as censorship and corporate bureaucracy have more to do with the bottom line than you think?