I agree with your portrayal of what Elon Musk is trying to do with Twitter.
He may or maynot be a benign dicyator, but he is still a dictator.
I know that many have a lot of hope that Twitter will fix it's ills, but I wonder if that is indeed possible, since it is a centralized web 2.0 structure, and although you can try to make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you are still left with leather not silk.