I’m ok with the influencers not bothering with Mastodon, tbh.

I mean, sure they’ll take the numbers with them where they go, but from my own perspective, I’m not struggling to find good people to follow so does it matter to me if the usual celebrities don’t keep getting boosted into my TL all the time?

Mastodon is working fine. There are plenty of people using it. It doesn’t need Twitter’s scraps.