If I recall from the algo weighting dump they did last year, Elon is hard-coded to be basically the absolute most important thing to the sorting algo with a pretty long decay time. When he posts, it's effectively guaranteed to be in all Twitter users' feeds, and that's how he wants it.

Then again, I don't know first-hand; I quit Twitter many months before it got this version of Billionaire Buffoonery as an owner.

So you're the reason he wants to remove the block button :)

This is the reason that Twitter is removing the block button...

Same here:

1) block the brain parasite,

2) disable half of the UI using an ad blocker,

3) condition yourself to click the "Following" tab without noticing it, and

4) voila, now you have a semi-pleasant Twitter experience.