Which of the many backed and well thought out points did you find lazy?
> There is nothing stopping you from curating the moderation to your wants or even creating your own moderation entirely
Not sure you read the article, but his point is that there's nothing to curate. It's full of a certain type of person, and not much else. I can attest to this too.
> Many people have this weird nostalgia about a Twitter that never existed anywhere but in their imagination
I have no nostalgia for Twitter, but I do remember what it used to be like (way back when you used to SMS in your tweets!). It was a fun place with random, sometimes interesting, sometimes thoughtful, most times funny and inane posts. That's not nostalgia, that's how it was.