I do. I imagine many people who aren't constantly glued to social media do.
I don't want a chronological ordering. I definitely don't want to feel like I need to open twitter every 10 seconds. I just want to follow a lot of interesting people and see "some" tweets when I look at Twitter. Not the latest ones, but the most important or interesting ones.
They must know that people like myself are fairly common, maybe the most common.
(I agree they should give users a choice, etc, but I think its a huge mistake to say "no one wants" it)
It's more coherent to see tweets in chronological order even if you're only shown what the algorithm believes to be important.
Power users don't want that; plenty of others do. Not everyone reads their entire timeline - for a lot of users, twitter is like TV, instead of Tivo - you just flip it on and watch whatever happens to be on.
I'm very lucky I can just leave Twitter for days/weeks on end. I know for some it's become a necessity.
Well, I enjoy "in case you missed it". I don't have enough time to check Instagram and Twitter every 5 minutes. Even with Twitter, checking it only once a day I would miss very interesting content if the Twitter app didn't surface highlights for me. Twitter is a firehose; I cannot possibly read every tweet from every person I follow.
All that said, I don't see why these apps can't just keep algorithimic sorting as the default and let power users check a hard-to-find setting that turns it back into chronological.
By this criteria, Facebook Groups are decentralized.