The way you feel about a protocol has absolutely no correlation with the outcome of said protocol. People are going to use it because it doesn’t have monetization through attention-seeking incentives. People are going to use it because it allows for integrated apps that can leverage the social graph with no walled gardens. 

And all of this will be true regardless of how people feel about their interactions with posts or comment sections because it’s likely that people continue to understand that the majority of opinions aren’t worth reading or taking into consideration to begin with.