ATProto won't be this way for much longer. Permissioned data is coming and will not be broadcast or accessible without grants. This will sit next to the public data, but separate.
It was already wayyy too complex. And this? Yeah, they (you? sorry) really need to just give it up.
Permissioned / private data is non negotiable for any social media tech trying to gain mass adoption.
Also, ATProto can be much more than social media tech, more like a plug-n-play distributed system
The entire point of services like Bluesky and Twitter is broadcasting your activity out to the internet for anyone to see (which of, course, is technically little-or-no different from "grab")
You seem rather confused. I do not work for Bluesky. I am an independent developer building completely separate applications on ATProto.