I agree with this OP/authors thesis...long live RSS! But don't tell me the answer to anything is found in signing up for / purchasing a specific product, then

I agree with this OP/authors thesis...long live RSS! But don't tell me the answer to anything is found in signing up for / purchasing a specific product, then it becomes a commercial :/ "It’s unclear what exactly destroyed RSS" The driving force (well before Google decided to close reader) is that many professional publishers (those who made a living/ran a pubco, notsomuch indie bloggers) stopped supporting RSS because it was harder to monetize RSS content consumers for obvious reasons. Even mid-late 2000s, I remember literally hacking constantly breaking RSS feeds from major sites or going back n forth with pubco support/webmaster requesting (at times even paying) for a custom feed because the format was so efficient.