It's a combination of egos and addictions, IMO. The experience isn't that much different now.
i.e. I was in a Twitter Space last night and the amount of people that had trouble talking or hearing each other, where the speakers kept leaving and coming back, it's exactly the same as nostr:npub1us9uc0sjjg0vyvh7vefgu2a96hx5up5gujl6pqays65hlk4de6hsnwq4g0.