> Now it's more profitable than ever.

The primary owner of X disagrees with you.

"We're barely breaking even" [1]

1. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-x-growth-22130...

This is a stupid comparison. The government is not a business. "Lower costs by making it shittier" has a completely different implication when people are relying on the work for national defense, public safety, health, income, and other life-and-death matters.

These are public goods. They shouldn't be run on the basis of "make them as crappy as we can get away with to save as much money as possible".

Twitter has 80% less revenue than it's peak in 2022, less than it had in 2014.

Even if it is more profitable, it's doing a heck of a lot less. The government being 80% less effective would be a very bad outcome here.

Government agencies are not Twitter though and their goal is not maximizing the profit.

Will I need to purchase a blue check mark to vote in the next election?