I do remember those, and iirc it almost sank the company. In fact I think that it absolutely impacted Twitter negatively, because the way they got through it was with massive investment in engineering funded by venture capital. So now Twitter is overcapitalized and beholden to be a size that makes that investment worthwhile, and can't make lean decisions that would be better for the world while also being sustainable for itself.

Let's ask ourselves, as either stakeholders or users of Twitter or participants in the culture borne of Twitter's poorly-designed success: are we happy with Twitter's arc?

I would rather have a Basecamp level of success that was well-designed and sustainable. And you don't get there by putting out a pile of shit and hoping for a runaway hit and then scrambling to raise billions so you can backfill everything you neglected to think about in the first place. The only ones who want that are VCs and the hyper-ambitious entrepreneurs who would rather have a billion dollars than make the world a better place.