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My theory is it's larger than just the diversity commissars and is an example of an owner taking back a hugely influential piece of capital from the professional managerial class (PMC) and more directly controlling it again. It's difficult to parse because the cultural commissars are always apart of this PMC and are the most individually identifiable, but it wasn't just the commissars themselves who were removed from Twitter and they weren't the only ones which were effectively controlling the capital many times in explicit conflict with the owner. This was a big issue under Jack with Jack saying one thing (and I genuinely believe he thought what he was saying) and then the PMC actually controlling the capital differently. There are other examples, e.g., Facebook are entirely controlled by the PMC and they regularly make demands on Zuckerberg which he succumbs to. Throughout the 10s, there are some examples of this with his PMC bucking at Zuckerberg allowing content on facebook. I believe a lot of this hate boner from those in the government, media, academia and elsewhere are responding to this attack on the PMC because they either are the PMC or strongly identify with it.
Musk's takeover wasn't just an attack on the useless diversity bloat, but an attack on the PMC itself harkening back to the days of the captains of industry at the reins before the rapid explosion of PMC through the economy.
I totally agree on this front and I'm really glad to see more people even talking about the managerial class. I don't really have much to add here because I think that we're both correct.
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