it's not like they tricked you into using it, and then changed the algorithm to make it harder to "stay up to date with things happening in your followees lives

it's not like they tricked you into using it, and then changed the algorithm to make it harder to "stay up to date with things happening in your followees lives". this is clearly not a platform that caters to that use case, so if that's what you want then you shouldn't use it. if you're infuriated because the entire world isn't designed to specifically cater to your expectations, you're going to spend a lot of time being infuriated