Aren't features solving problems?
The problem I see is "bad behavior" which has forms like
(1) People who blame their problems on other categories of people
(2) Posts about the outrage of the day
(3) DMs from people who say "Hey!" who are really trying to qualify me for a romance scam
(4) OnlyFans stars who want to me to engage with them. I don't want to engage with them at all, but if I did, I wouldn't want to engage with them on a platform where I also engage with my sister-in-law.
Answers to some of those problems might involve taking features away, for instance (3) could be addressed by just not supporting DMs at all. For other people, (1-2) and (4) might be the whole reason they're there.
Blog have all sorts of problems:
(1) It takes a huge amount of effort to write, sysadmin, and promote. (Say an equal share to all three)
(2) If I was successful in promoting a blog in the AWS age I'd bankrupt myself, particularly if I was interested in publishing video, which a lot of people are.
(3) Between the shift to static generation and the horrors of content moderation I'd probably not want comments if I had a blog
Even technically savvy people have given up or retreated to Medium/Substack.
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social and https://mastodon.social/@UP8
EDIT: Didn't see 3) the first time but yeah I don't think comments do most people any good. Like I said blog + email covers what most people want it just isn't sold to them outside of places like substack (and even they really try hard to get people to use "notes" which is essentially orange twitter.)
so if I did get around to blogging again I'd still be posting on social for visibility.
Not necessarily, but they can be.
Features are just checkboxes on a list
"Allows image posting" is a feature
"Creates envy among those who missed a party" is solving a problem