Long form video, Twitter blue at the very least, which seems like more than Twitter managed to do per year before then with 4x the manpower.
Many of those things you listed are what people who have been in the institutionalized employees find important, essentially process for its own sake.
Before the layoffs Twitter had about 7500 employees, while SpaceX at 12000 builds frickin' rockets, have rocket launches every week, designing and building the next level launch platform that will revolutionize space travel, all the while revolutionizing satellite internet. Musk knows a thing or two about what smart, focused people are capable of.
So you're saying that at SpaceX or Tesla people don't work on any of those things (requirements gathering, clients acceptance testing, QA, integration testing, certifications, regulatory frameworks) and they just happily code away?
Many of those things you listed are what people who have been in the institutionalized employees find important, essentially process for its own sake.
Before the layoffs Twitter had about 7500 employees, while SpaceX at 12000 builds frickin' rockets, have rocket launches every week, designing and building the next level launch platform that will revolutionize space travel, all the while revolutionizing satellite internet. Musk knows a thing or two about what smart, focused people are capable of.