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You can be happy for the person making the choice that they are making, but also feel bad/sad about the effect it has on you.
I don’t want Tom to commit his entire life to YouTube. I respect him as a person and want him to do what’s best for him, but I also really enjoyed his content and will miss his regular high quality uploads. One of the first things I’d do when I got home from that first work/school day of the week would be to watch the latest Tom Scott video. I’ve massively dialed back my YouTube watching in recent years, but I still always watch his content.
One silver lining is we might get more technical difficulties.
There is one other thing you buy a company for, and it’s to remove them from the market. I’m fully convinced that if he had any goal, it was to completely wreck Twitter as fast as possible without drawing everyone to that conclusion.
It’s literally the only thing he has done with the company, drive it further and further into a right wing cesspit that high value advertisers want nothing to do with.
I’m not convinced that he had any goals, he made a meme joke offer during a manic episode and tried to back out of it but was caught by his own need for public ridicule.