٩◔̯◔۶ Web 3.0 slept with my wife

From Gruber’s App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum:

Regular people do not want to use social networks without algorithmic feeds, and do not want to use social networks whose basic premise they do not understand.

The latter point seems fair. But what indicators do we have that average users want opaque algorithms set by the worst incentives?