You should be able to stay on Following, they made that change a while back. I.e., once you choose Following, you will keep going there till you change it.
That's not how it works on my iPhone or iPad, unfortunately -- and I just replaced and clean installed my iPad this week. It even happens when I quickly switch from and back to the X app.
Maybe my user account isn't in that feature pool yet?
Maybe my user account isn't in that feature pool yet?