My understanding is, in the early days, you could send an SMS to Twitter to post, so the limitation was imposed by SMS and not necessarily Twitter.
No. The twitter were build with the limit in mind, in fact it is its whole spiel.
Why? It's not thar deep.
It games the attention span of viewers. You can read 3-4 articles before getting tired or going about your day, but you can guzzle infinite number of twits, because they are small, engaging and various
It not only games the viewers but posters too. Maybe you want to write an article, or blog post, but you know it's going to be long. So you better do it on the weekend. Or when you have more time. Which for many is never.
But writing a couple sentences? Easy! You can do it on a bus! You can do it on the toilet! And, if everyone is on the same level as you, you don't feel bad for keeping it short.
While it seems logical at first, when you consider it seriously it quickly falls apart.
Even not considering such questions as "How do you enforce it?" (What are you going to do? Take the kid from them? That would quickly turn into a giant mess) or "How effective in actuality it is going to be?" (What stopping someone malicious to ace the exam and then abuse their kid without legal repercussions?) much simpler reason is that it would even further hinder the already falling birth rates. And most of the goverments and people don't want that.
better tools will never lead to me being able to paint or draw without significant time and effort that i don’t have invested into practice
Not with that attitude...
In all seriousness, yes, yes they are. Maybe you can't paint like the medival masters, but you able to open photoshop and make collages/edits to express your inner world a thousand times more interesting and charming. There are people who draw with a mouse. They are expressing themselves, using generic technology, that is for the most part, available everywhere. Do you really need more?
Or are you just want to speedrun and skip all this boring "effort", "dedication", and just generate away your "very valuable" ideas en-mass for cheap?
It doesn't "lower skillset needed to create", that can be achieved by making lowcost/free but powerful tools to be widely available.
What it does is lowering the bar on making something that's pretending to be decent but in actuality don't have time and effort put in it.
Which means that the only thing it is going to led to is massive amounts of slop
Hmm isn't this just conventional behavior for all tech? Like I If you get your phone's battery to a flat zero, your going to need to wait a bit for it to have at least some minimal charge to just turn on. The same with laptops, tablets and any other handheld devices. So why would switch (or switch 2) be any different?
I like the one with the mouth