My take on this is that the client front end UI will load basic pages, but when it tries to load the feed there's somewhat Network error that causes the feed not to load.

There is a curious lack of data showing the impacts of these changes (though perhaps that's forthcoming as they roll it out at scale).

It should be obvious no one good stayed there. Either they were fired or left disgusted. You need to be really desperate to stick with Elmo.