The pay wall? A great way to get rid of bots. Letting the maga people back in? That sounds rather inclusive! Rate-limiting the free users, well you’re probably on that platform too much anyway. Re-branding it to be “X”, also seems fine tbh…
People love being told what to get angry over it seems, I doubt most of the people criticising him would have come up with these opinions on their own. They seem to just be parroting each other, while enjoying a shared communal outrage.
The only good feature he added is the tweet view count. His other decisions have not been good.