The persistent narrative is that people hate change but eventually they get used to it, and look at this data which shows improved metrics.

Except for the catastrophic failure of Digg v4, there's a general refusal to believe that change can ever be for the worse. As long as people continue to use a service, however begrudgingly, everything is great. Subjectively, I see more and more irritation from normal (non-nerd) people at non-chronological displays. People like control and certainty about the information they're seeing, and clever algorithms take that away.