@simonstalenhag Honestly I think it's much simpler than that.

He absolutely hates it when people aren't sycophantic to him.

His ego drove him to buy twitter because he couldn't tolerate any of the rightfully-earned ridicule he was receiving, in some narcissistically misguided belief that he could somehow "do it better" than the existing leadership when it comes to what he believed to be harassment.

And now, here we are.

@Ailantd @simonstalenhag And yet the very first thing he demanded Twitter's engineers do was to "fix" the verification system in order to "fix the harassment and spam problem" that Twitter had. His demand got monkeypawed.

Harassment is indeed real, there, but the nature of the problem is imagined solely by him and people like him, because people having the gall to stand up to them and say "No, you actually kinda suck." is harassment and bullying to them.

@dragonarchitect @simonstalenhag He said it was to combat bots, which doesn't make sense, and actually made it worse, as many people told him.

I think he realized what a bad idea buying twitter was, and he indeed tried to stop it, but he was forced to comply. Now he has a real cash problem and he needs to make twitter profitable as soon as possible, hence the layoffs, the verification paywall and more of this to come. As simple as that I think.