the underlying content graph is shared and transparent

And not used at all. All of the data is free and volunteered and you are not using it at all. You rank on follow and payout.

Youre using AI to write your comment, asking it: "How to refute this."
Obvious since it left in divergence between frontends in as a bad thing. All it does is make you admit yourself that none of you do anything differently in any meaningful way. As if divergence would somehow be bad.

You have not been cautious in anything. You have maintained the POB based ranking.
You are not preserving transparency in any way youre just avoiding building better product layers on top of the data that already exists TRANSPARENTLY and freely onchain.
And beyond that every single criticism of algos can easily be shot down, worked around, kinks flattened.

Yet, you do nothing and call it intentional.