This gives me an ad-free news aggregation curated by Wikipedia contributors that I can filter any way I want. Of course, there are only about 10-15 events reported per day, and some items found in traditional news sources (op-eds, analysis, "human interest" stories) are missing, but for me that's a feature, not a bug.
This gives much flexibility and control vs. going to a single web site. I can even read the comics on Sundays.
Here is another perspective on reading a variety of sources (which, ironically, I found via google news): https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/kevin-olearys-daily-morning-...
And some prior discussion: https://www.google.com/search?hl=eo&gbv=1&q=replacement+for+...
Of course, one has to prioritize use of time and not be unduly distracted by the wide variety of sources that are available. Also deciding carefully whom to trust by identifying humans and observing behavior over time.
Though I guess if you want things organized by topic across sites that won't work.
Some tools (like Kill the Newsletter) also turn newsletters into RSS feeds so you can add them to your aggregation, with the added benefit of them not actually having your email.
It’s bootstrapped and profitable, been running for a few years, and I keep interface churn to a minimum.
Personally I don't like aggregators, they don't know my preferences, it's just faster to have look at bunch of websites and choose what I wanna read than see small selection of mostly unwanted content in aggregator. I remember GNews should have something like I'm not interested button and no matter how many hundreds times I used it I still kept getting stories on such topic.
http://68k.news (Google news rewritten for old computers. Blue links and everything !) https://currentevents.email (Wikipedia rewritten)
I like the Associated Press news app (I don't like the app, but I like the news) for general news.
I like the Apple News widgets for specific topics/seeing headlines on specific topics.