Realistically, how will this affect Meta at all? Some people are pissed, nobody else cares, business as usual.

Well, these hacks targeted large influencer accounts. It could have more severe impact than 20k randomly selected accounts.

Large influencer accounts without two factor authentication...

The only useful reaction to this is to point and laugh.

Also large influencers who cannot influence much without Meta's platforms... they will simply not complain too much about it if they like their "job".

No. Meta's account recovery flow disables 2FA. It's idiotic. 2FA for Meta accounts serves no beneficial purpose.

I think the hack bypassed 2FA. If you can call “asking for account access” a hack lmao

It did not, TFA clearly says it worked for accounts with no 2FA, as GP said.

The hack doesn't have much to do with it. Meta account recovery flow has always allowed bypassing 2FA.

Why did this not work for 2FA accounts then?

What are their alternatives? I'm assuming that most of the 22k people with large audiences that need a large platform to reach them. Meta unfortunately, is the only platform that allows people to reach across many demographics. Its the people that follow the 22k accounts that are important, and they are unaffected by this and thus aren't leaving meta (and 99% won't even know this happened or care).

Depends on the use case, but TikTok is an alternative for many of them, I would say it generally feels more like the place where interesting things are happening vs. meta properties.

I agree, but many do not. Anyways, those 22k people are going to want to be on both regardless.

Somehow this company still earns over a billion dollars a week in net profits, which I find puzzling.

Why? They clearly are not spending money on employee salaries, taxes, or benefits.

According to SEC filings, the median yearly total compensation at Meta is $380,000. Median for the US in general is about $70,000.