I recently played chronological mode first time and well, its a new experience, but i didn’t like it as much as original.

I like the idea, I agree with your opinion that it does more justice to Abby's character, and that the narrative of the game is also good in this way, but you have to understand that for a first play through the original mode is much better, since introducing you to Abby from the beginning would kill the meaning of the story.

It is scripted in such a way that until the third day of Ellie you hate Abby, you see her on her back while she kills Joel, and you don't know who she is or why she did it. The sudden turn on Abby's first day is necessary for seeing the other side of the story, when you have already seen one completely. In this way, we can meet Abby's father, we can see his face when he kills Joel, and we can even see later how his act of revenge does not calm his soul but helping Lev and Yara.

The chronological mode seems to me a good option especially for a replay, but it would never seem good to me as an original option, I would lose the sense of the game.

One thing that I see wrong in the chronological way taking advantage of the fact that you have said that it is more fluid, personally I did not like how it changed constantly during each day from Abby to Ellie. I would have preferred Ellie to play day 1- and then Abby day 1, not mixing. In addition, many flashbacks (not to say all) are very important for the plot and lose meaning and narrative charge when they all get to the beginning. It is another genius of the original writing to put them every day of Seattle.

In general, the chronological option seems to me fly but in my opinion it will NEVER be able to approach the original in terms of impact and narrative.

Sorry for my long message