RSS really simplifies reading news. Having multiple sources in a single place and compact lists are obvious benefits, but even if you only subscribe to 1 site, you'd save a ton of time simply by not having to rescan over stuff you've already read or decided not to read. Over the past month I've logged out of and stopped going directly to media sites and replaced them with RSS feeds. That's including YouTube, which was a pain to do but I only subscribed to about 15 channels. I do fear Google will kill the feed urls at some point.

I've been searching for a cross-platform desktop RSS reader. Thunderbird is what I use for now and I would stop looking if I could just filter URLs but the filtering only seems to be built for email, which works if the URL is in the "body" of the feed item, but not all feeds are structured like that (e.g. HN). RSSOwl looks real promising but doesn't run for me on Windows 10 and hasn't been updated in 2 years. I'd prefer a standalone RSS reader, not a email client with RSS tacked on. I looked at everything in the comments so far but they all fall a little short.