I still get all of my news so I'd say it is still going strong. I think you are right that the big platforms tend to remove RSS as they grow because they would

I still get all of my news so I'd say it is still going strong. I think you are right that the big platforms tend to remove RSS as they grow because they would rather have lock-in than providing the ibterfaces that their users want but that is a minor strike against RSS. I think the biggest problem is just that users don't really know about it. The easy-to-discover auto-discovery buttons have been removed from browsers so most users don't even know. Based on my experience a lot of people are very happy with RSS ones you set them up with a feed reader and an extension that adds the RSS discovery back to the browser. So I guess the biggest problem isn't the discovery of RSS feeds but the disicery of RSS itself.