You're just picking from different trade-offs, not doing something better nor worse (nor right nor wrong). A major use-case of RSS readers is to have a local,

You're just picking from different trade-offs, not doing something better nor worse (nor right nor wrong). A major use-case of RSS readers is to have a local, eternal copy of a producer's content to read at your own leisure. I have content in my RSS reader that I cherish from blogs that aren't even online anymore. That I don't need to visit poorly designed websites is only a tertiary perk—I don't need to visit the origin, ever. There's not much to argue here, though. It's just a different offering. For example, I use https://sumi.news/ https://sumi.news/ (created by some HNer) and certainly don't use it read the entire history of every news website. Nothing wrong with that.