I feel like editorializing people's tweet's is insulting, and patronizing and is basically the platform abusing its own users.

If a person disagrees with a tweet, or wants to add context they can reply to.

> The free speech supporters would vastly prefer that.

They should not just prefer it, but actively support and defend it. It's speech by Twitter people after all.

But if you go back to when Twitter had similar responses to tweets from the last administration, you might be surprised by the reaction from many self-proclaimed free-speech supporters.