I am really happy about the return to the ranked and filtered feed; less stuff to read. But then, they went and added an unread count next to the View Live Feed

I am really happy about the return to the ranked and filtered feed; less stuff to read. But then, they went and added an unread count next to the View Live Feed link! Aaaggghh! I just threw out dozens of RSS feeds because I have OCD and must drive unread counts down to zero. This will torment me.