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Sure. I'm a big fan of federation. However, I switched to Mastodon (the ActivityPub application) because I liked its style better than Twitter. Turning Mastodon into Twitter to attract a larger audience and placate the complainers isn't necessarily what everyone wants. Just my personal view on this. But it honestly doesn't bother me that much.
The signup/moderation issue feels somewhat similar. Yeah, it would be way more Twitter-like if signup defaulted to Mastodon.social and that mega-instance hired a content moderation team to rival a professional social media site. But that's not quite what I think is currently good about Mastodon and Fedi...
On that part, I do agree with you. I do not like mastodon just because I'm not a huge fan of the micro-blogging-focused user experience, but I do agree that there's value in a platform not imitating Twitter but having some of the UX. Likewise, I think that there is value in another platform that would attract Twitter users. I think it could just be a separate mastodon instance that is modified to fit said user base.