the ability to easily filter/unfilter users from my feed is a much more user-friendly solution to that problem.

It's not that simple is it?

I want to see the photos my crazy aunt posts of her family and dogs, but I would love to not see the alt-right political memes she also posts.

I can do this already to some extent by simply blocking certain sources that she's reposting from. It's harder to do when the content is copied and pasted.

I would rather deal with the occasional offputting post than with the completely non-chronological mess FB has now that will decide which friends' posts I don't see at all seemingly arbitrarily. Right now I deal with both.

If someone goes on a racist rant you can quickly scroll past that entire streak with a chronological timeline. With an algorithmic one it's not so easy.