Right now I see some LGBTQ people hopping on our side to protect children. Muslims and Christians going against school boards together. More and more normies are agreeing with us that masks were stupid, covid wasn't as bad as they made it, and the vax probably did more harm that good.
People are waking up and syncing with the right ideals for the first time in a long time. A bunch of leftists pretending to be like us could easily derail that if Twitter is opened back up and is flooded with 'God hates fags, kill yourself!', "get back to your own country!!!", etc. Racial slurs everywhere, and general buttf@#kery.
Leftists have mastered this stuff. Of course we can spot it right away but most normies can't . Remember how many folks felt sorry for poor Jussie? And that story wasn't even believable! or like on Jan 6th where the feds fanned the flames and set people up, I am sure they would like to do that online too.
If Elon pulls that censorship prior to the Cabal being cleaned up all we would see is "alt right" accounts yelling racial slurs, calling for genocide and violence all while saying "Q sent us'. I can imagine our moderators here have a pretty difficult time weeding that shit out here, can you imagine Twitter without that censorship?
Remember, these people will pretend to be you and paint you in the worst light. Any unity between the tribes (gender, color, race, religion, politics, etc.) would be broken up again.
tldr -it's for our benefit.
You make a good point, but I think the main reason that change hasn't occurred instantly is that people have unrealistic expectations.
He just took over a company with thousands of employees. The vast majority will be working against Elon and trying to find ways to thwart him.
He can't just fire them all without Twitter falling apart. He's got to understand how it all works, and slowly fire people while keeping the site running.
You can bet that 90% of the employees are trying to find ways to ban/suspend users without it being traceable to themselves.
Look no further than Trump. He accomplished a lot during his four years considering nearly everyone worked against him.
If every single federal government worker can be suspended without pay right now, the country would be instantly better.