I'm sorry but you've clearly decided you are the Person Who Doesn't Like Mastodon and that's not actually a position I can reason you out of

We're not talking shit like "what are the implications for user autonomy of having mods that are much closer to user level and much more active? should we have Quote Tweets?" or not, we're talking shit like people pretending they can't possibly understand what the box with the blue button next to it does because the button says "Toot!" instead of "Tweet"

people have done this as long as there’s been fediverse. we’ve used this network on and off since 2017 and the complaint people always have is “it’s too complicated,” while they use other federated services like email every day. there’s just a learned helplessness about using anything that isn’t a corporate walled garden