It is not a straw man. Considering how the post starts, the writer fully expected the platform to die. Also literally "twitter is dead" "twitter is dead to me" "twitter is quite dead" go inside a reasonable interpretation considering there's always loss.

Other parts can only be considered incorrect if you lose sight of the big picture! As I said, you can't put a price on Freedom Of Speech. And considering the platform is technically very operational, it is being protected.

Your other points like "subscriptions will NEVER pay for everything!" are only the kinds of things that do actually end up turning true to unique tech companies, which X absolutely is like now.

>> X does have pretty much everything it needs, and will only grow with time.

>So does it have everything it needs, or will it grow? Those don’t make sense at the same time.

Wrong. It has everything it needs to function, and will eventually grow. Like with anything, usually the prerequisite for growth is sustainability in a stable state.

If you're a free speech absolutist, and not a total idiot who doesn't see forest from the trees, Twitter for sure wasn't the platform for you, but X is pretty much the only one due to its popularity and successfully driven iniatives to protect it. Pointing out things like ElonJet (of whose handling was reasonable anyway due to security), or some Twitter's old behaviours not being handled yet due to international complications is not seeing the forest.