There's one particular website that they don't like, and they see declining engagement from, so they leave. There's other websites that might have less engagement, but they do like it, so they stay there. Then there's other websites that might have similar ideological disdain for, but they get very broad reach from, so they reluctantly stay.

I really don't see what the big deal is with trying to reach a broad audience.

Anyway,

> Twitter was never a utopia. We've criticized the platform for about as long as it’s been around. Still, Twitter did deserve recognition from time to time for vociferously fighting for its users’ rights. That changed. Musk fired the entire human rights team and laid off staffers in countries where the company previously fought off censorship demands from repressive regimes. Many users left. Today we're joining them.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

It’s not wasm?

It seems pretty reasonable that any scraper would already have mitigations for things like this as a function of just being on the internet.

This is incorrect. It is a full JavaScript framework in your start menu.

I don't see your read that it's about ram-hungry web views either. To me, "Start menu uses React" is a dig that Microsoft is so uncommitted to it's native development platform that they (partially) don't use it in one of the most 'core' parts of the operating system.