Efficiency
It’s so creepy. He looks about 12, and as self-confident and smug as Musk himself. This punk was in charge of demolishing great swathes of research on the basis that they were “DEI” and thus evil garbage.
“Do you think maybe there was a reason the government doesn’t use Signal?”
I disagree. This incompetance is completely believeable, and was predicted at the time Musk was given this job. I bet there were bonuses and incentives for higher numbers on the “scorecards,” so the default position would have been to assume uselessness and waste, and to cut things rather than retain them.