Not really, even the it still does recommended tweets and I don’t want to see retweets or likes and you have to turn that off per person.

Yes, really. I never see 'recommended' or 'so-and-so liked...' in my feed.

I had to create a new account after losing mine, and without following many people it seems like easily 30-50% of my feed is recommended content.

There are "home" and "newest" feeds. I agree it's shitty that the default shows this stuff, but you just have to switch it over to "newest."

Yes really: you can get this experience with Twitter: https://lee-phillips.org/howtotwitter/

You lost me at 6 page blog on how to use a service who’s UI is apparently impregnable.

That's unnecessarily dismissive of someone trying their best to share some tips. It's not like they charged you to read it.

Fair enough it wasn’t meant to be a commentary on them, but I will edit with an apology

Don’t worry about it. I didn’t exactly understand your original comment, but I don’t have a problem with people having opinions.