Facebook pivots into Stories

I keep in touch with a group of friends via FB's Messenger app. Recently, several posts on the chat would have greyed-out boxes on them with an "add to story" button on them. While I understand that FB's looking to centralize and capitalize on what and how people communicate, I'd love the option to turn some of this more intrusive stuff off.

No, I don't want to put the contents of my chat into an FB post. If I did, I would copy and paste them into an FB post. To some degree, these changes degrade Messenger's usefulness as a chat app. I want to see content, not buttons begging me to become content.