How do you mean? The situation with X seems mostly to do with marketing (people not liking the owner & his behavior) and bots, with maybe a little bit of instability thrown in. As noted elsewhere in the thread, Facebook already has experience with a bunch of different types of services-- from the games they used to host, to Marketplace mentioned elsewhere in the thread, to event management rivaling Meetup & Eventbrite, and even a dating app. X talks about being an "everything app," but they really just have posts (with media) and that's their only feature to date. Facebook does a lot more. So I don't see how pushing harder on non-social features would make them any more like X is right now.

X public perception is centered around Musk, easily enough.

Meta's public perception was semi-centered around Zuck, not nearly to the same degree, but I can easily imagine that if they didn't pull back a bit, they would have had a hard time continuing forward with that prior image.

Not saying they can't go forwards now, just that they are being careful, to try and make a more solid, longer lasting brand. As opposed to the burn-everything approach of X.

They have the time to spend: X isn't going to ever trend upwards in public perception, Google is already there in every aspect, so the only option is to play catch-up to Google and not worry about anything else.