Yes, and if everything is properly configured that is great. Where is falls apart is when your site host/admin slaps Cloudflare protection on the domain and for

Yes, and if everything is properly configured that is great. Where is falls apart is when your site host/admin slaps Cloudflare protection on the domain and forgets to properly exclude the RSS pages, then programs can't fetch the feed without resorting to anti-bot evasion tech scraping, and are left with rendered HTML instead of the actual feed and have to deal with that. Niche? It happens far more than you think.