> Many ex-employees swore the servers would catch fire by now.

They've 'caught on fire' many times, such as the time login/2fa broke, or the weeks/months where you were rate-limited to only a few hundred interactions per day.

Judging by how unreliable it has been ever since, there's likely constant firefighting going on.

Can't confirm. It works for me just as well as it did in 2022.

Not my experience at all. It is faster and has slightly more feature since.

It really doesn’t work well. But it has the advantage in that, if some messages just don’t appear… well, you don’t really notice.

That has nothing to do with letting go staff and everything to do with the owner.

Wrong. A substantial number of advertisers dropped X.com because it isn't brand safe (for example their ads are located next to racist or Nazi or pornographic content). A substantial number of the staff let go were involved in keeping the site brand safe.

Google also should not show x.com on search engine as its another social media platform, it has nothing to do for ranking

Letting go staff has everything with the owner though.