Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.
I can think of couple of reasons:
1. as a public company, they are afraid to lose so many accounts - see Netflix as an example on what could happen to their stock
2. bots are the future, at some point I think everyone will have a bot to post for them
Those who post quickest have a higher chance of not getting lost in the noise and that is where bots will probably be used first by individuals as well.
With that said, hopefully this not the future and new ways of moderating and presenting information will be invented, but the way things are now, it's a slug-fest and the fastest and loudest often wins.