When quoting a tweet, it’s laid out like an email. Responses are at the top of the email, not the bottom. You go down as you go back through the email chain. The bottom one is the first one. It’s not laid out for sharing a screenshot of a conversation, because that was never the intended use case of the layout.

It fucking sucks for emails too. I can’t tell you the vicious hatred quote-after (a.k.a. top-posting) causes in everyone who actually uses emails for work. Quotes in emails are supposed to be interleaved with the text you are writing: quote part of an email, respond to it, repeat. Just like here on Lemmy or any other messenger or forum. If you look at places where email is actually used for work (like software development mailing lists), this is how it is used still to this day. Worst-case, if you’re lazy but feel the need to add a quote, add it before, so that I see the context before I read your reply. But most likely if you’re doing that, you don’t need the quote at all.

Quote-at-the-end is just a pointless waste of resources imposed on us, mostly by Microsoft and Google. If after reading your email I wanted to read the rest of the thread, I would read the rest of the thread, I have a god damn email client!

From that perspective, the layout makes complete sense, and it works perfectly for its intended use.

No it doesn’t, even a lazy quote-entire-thing-at-the-top would work better, because it provides context before I read the reply. This is just how most western languages work, they are read top-to-bottom. Imagine if a book had its chapters ordered in reverse order!