That was the original intention until it become the most influentical social media app where all politics take place.

Ultimatums are not going to cut it, I have seen many times people getting cancelled because they worded out badly something important they wanted to say while trying to keep it under 280 characters.

Twitter was being used for things it was never meant for and that become irs main audience, something about the character limit had to be made

And this is no me defending Elon, Twitter's previous staff before his takeover was already considering something like this.