I hate meta and honestly don't think Threads will bring anything new that other fedi software already has. I'm also quite happy with all the software available so don't see a reason to use Threads. I am curious to see if people who previously didn't use the fediverse or found it too confusing etc will like Threads.

Honestly shocked they haven't tried to already

It really is one by one the large social media companies make bad decisions and there's a huge migration to a nicer fediverse alternative. I guess the positive side to YouTube doing this is that Peertube will have more people + content