The publishers made them. If you don't have an early review ready the second a game releases, nobody cares about your review. Publishers knew that and would blacklist anyone that gave them bad reviews. No early copies means no day one reviews.
So all that are left are places like IGN that will never give a score lower than 6/10 for the largest dog shit games in existence.
And nothing of value was lost
If this is any way true, then they need to be shut down immediately. He is not an engineer. He does not understand anything. I've heard him speak about things I know and pretend he's knows about, and it's obvious he's a moron.
Twitter servers were a benchmark in global performance up until he started fucking around with them. They were included on latency tests. The second he touched them latency tripled. Never went back down. He turned Twitter from a tech company leader into a social propaganda network worth a fraction of itself.
I have a bridge to sell you if you think grok is collecting the least amount of info.