You can turn off seeing retweets from accounts you follow on a per-account basis, and more people (including yourself, if you're ever curious to go back to Twitter) should more aggressively use the option to make the site far more enjoyable. Lots of accounts are fine to follow on their own, but complete spam-fests if your feed is full of everything they retweet. Just go to their profile, hit the three dots, and then click "Turn off retweets".
Does Twitter respect this toggled option and persist the state?
I’m a little burned out fighting over user preferences across social media that seem to always toggle themselves back to whatever default the platform wants that day.
I'm not going to promise it never forgets that option, but I've never noticed it forgetting across dozens of accounts I follow, and several years and multiple logins/devices/browsers. It's not like the usual per-device/session timeline options, it's more along the lines and persistence of a mute/block toggle.
