It is kind of understandable that RSS feeds would fade in prominence as content creators, even of more casual blogs, increasingly sought to monetize. RSS feeds

It is kind of understandable that RSS feeds would fade in prominence as content creators, even of more casual blogs, increasingly sought to monetize. RSS feeds tended to present successively posted content without the ads that site owners were keen to confront users with. A person subscribing to feeds would often never need to visit the actual site and see those ads, not would they get tagged by lucrative tracking cookies. Rather they could read everything "for free" through an RSS reader. Yes, you could introduce ads into the RSS feed, but when the RSS channel is increasingly seen as something for only a tiny niche of anoraks (especially since the demise of Google Reader), no surprise that it was no longer seen as worth the trouble.