Threads has 320 million monthly active users and 100 million daily.
It’s certainly not a flop. It’s almost as big as X globally.
There’s a tremendous locality bias around Meta’s products. Social media use is very localized by geography and age. So if all your friends stopped using Facebook ten years ago, you assume that’s probably true everywhere, while in fact they’ve added several billion users on FB since then.
It seems like a flop not in user count but in that I'm not seeing it originate any valuable content.
I've seen several interesting posts from Bluesky referenced elsewhere already, but literally nothing from Threads despite it having had more users for longer.
This is a completely computer run plane, and it surely has enough information to know this is a disastrous thing to do.
I suppose you could have it attempt to run a full forward-looking flight simulation to predict but part of the reason for there being so many controls is to deal with situations where the plane isn't acting like it should be, situations which would invalidate the simulation.