I’ve been on (Twitter) X for 15 years. Good times and bad times.
I upgraded my account and paid a fee for the first time recently. It was certainly worth it. Speed is much faster and lots of other benefits.
Since Elon Musk turned X around, I can see a increase in traffic, much faster response speed and I have less of the ComDem Trolls. They are still there, but not like it was.
I don’t have a X account, but lurked quite a bit before Elon required an account to follow threads.