I think every cat likes cardboard on some level.

Mine love to chew on it and tear boxes into little pieces bit by bit

It's not just spez. It's the board that probably made the decision to disable API access, and that can remove spez if they choose to. But they won't, because they want the enshittification necessary to let them cash out once they go public.

Fair enough, but unless their politics influence the platform then there really isn't an issue. So far they don't, and there isn't.