If some people you follow are more important than others (family) that doesn't matter to the stream, and you get bogged down by less important messages.
I think some "algorithm" is necessary, but people will disagree on the balance. (It's unfortunately in twitter's interest to push all kinds of random shallow stuff and get people addicted to that.) I hope mastodon can maybe provide some flexibility and customizability in terms of what the mix between recent and likely to be interesting should be, and what interesting means to you.
Not that I use twitter much, but since it became clear that Elon made sure to promote himself in the algorithmic feeds, I've avoided "For you" anyway since I don't accept that in my mix of messages.
