I would like to see a better UI for the feed. Maybe have a few trending posts at the top and then your following underneath.
It's hard to see the engagement or to get engagement where as something like reddit style pages would bring the popular content in front of everyone.
Khal said they will introduce a profile. Maybe in the next version, I suppose.
Threads can't use the same following system as we use on Hive. The reasons for following are completely different.
I agree, right now it's very hard to follow a conversation or filter content, other than by tags. This will change when they add a profile. At least I hope so.