Why is it that when I start up Teams it automatically opens up my Chats first?

Same question. Years later. No answer. Teams will forever be in beta..

I'm on a PC and that's what I'm seeing. No 'applications' setting.

I use both Mac and Windows desktop versions and online versions, all operating systems up to date, with all versions Teams opens on the chat page, whether pinned or not or whatever. As soon as you close the app (not just click away, but close it completely) and open it again, it starts on the chat page. And there is no setting anywhere to change this.
So nothing new in the west.

So to all of you who haven't done it yet, please cast your vote here, the more votes the better.
Microsoft is not interested in the chats here, but only - if at all - in the feedback pages like below. But even there, only if a lot of users complain, so far there are apparently far too few:

1. Allow user to choose app opening view - https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/3518b266-a0dc-ee11-a73d-6045bd7a7839
2. Set preferred default view - https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/86d55a3b-f7f0-ee11-a73d-6045bd7a7839

Navigate to installed apps - Teams Machine wide installer - Modify

Scroll up to Microsoft Teams - Reset - Repair - Terminate

Restart Teams

This isn't what we're actually ASKING for, which is the ability to select what screen Teams starts up in, but for the first time in (I don't know how long), Teams is not starting up in a chat I had weeks before. It's now starting up in the oh-goody-goody little cloud "this is your space" screen, but if I arrow back a single screen, I'm where I left off and want to be - the Teams "Manage Teams" list. I'll take it, though why MS thinks I'm going to share random thoughts with a cloud is beyond me. I'm using the PC desktop version.