Interesting. My "generic uses and purposes" was to occasionally scroll around through tweets somebody linked me to.
That's entirely impossible now since I don't have an account (and don't plan to create one).
Roughly speak, it has become infinitely worse for me.
There are entire communities of people who relied on the ability to simply read Twitter without an account, took the time to write code of their own, and now are reacting with much more maturity than HN seems to be. The petty personal attacks are simply astonishing.
"RIP Nitter" https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
However talking in a way that takes the current critical temporary state as the default forever isn't very fair