This still seems like a low probability future, but the most exciting thing to me about Elon Twitter™ is that it's the most prominent institution in recent history to be de-bloated — if there's any sort of domino effect into other organizations, governments, etc., it's going to be quite the win for humanity.

Spot on. Private Equity raiders in the 1980s weren't known for improving their companies — but could extract value effectively.

It'll be interesting to see if tech can go a different way. Though, n=1, Marissa Mayer couldn't do it for Yahoo.