>> If you go to a chronological feed, it ends up getting overwhelmed with content from companies, brands, and publishers

Not if you unsubscribe from companies, brands, and publishers. You're welcome.

That's a feel good response, but there are also individuals who post a bit too much, but still fairly interesting stuff.

A middle ground would be to have a "reduced follow" mode where you still have a chronological timeline, except that at most N posts per day are shown from "reduced followees". The filtering can still be based on a popularity signal.