While many are quick to dismiss this move as another quirk of Musk's eccentricity, it is essential to recognize that he operates on an entirely different level – playing chess while we are stuck playing checkers.

Elon Musk this week ended his destructive charade as the owner and operator of Twitter not by ceding operational control to someone more capable or by admitting his vision for the product is completely unworkable, but instead by just killing it entirely.

If we take Musk and Linda Yaccarino, X’s CEO, at face value, it is the latest in a line of decisions to unburden Twitter from the weight of its past, “move at the speed of light”, and take a new direction.