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Huge jump here...

They had a feature that they (as most would) thought would help people engage with each other and express support. Turns out it has unintended consequences. Now rightfully so they are exploring how to get away from that.

Not everything is a nefarious scheme. Sometimes it’s just good old product iteration.

Facebook has exhausted all of the goodwill it could have been given at this point.

Only in geek culture -- Facebook still has billions of users,

"We are running a limited test where like, reaction, and video view counts are made private across Facebook. We will gather feedback to understand whether this change will improve people’s experiences"

Stating that you are improving the experience doesn't mean you are admitting the current experience is bad.

No, but the multiple peer reviewed studies do.

Not necessarily. If I add chocolate sprinkles to my son's ice cream cone I am improving his experience but ice cream without sprinkles is still pretty good.