I also really like consolidated news feeds of one persons activity across all platforms (which seems more like what these "auto now" page attempts are going for).
I think we need a new term. I would like to call it /feed. It could even be implemented as an rss/atom/activitypub aggregate feed of all a user's activity across publishing platforms.
/feed
Let's make it a thing. And let's keep /now as the quarterly update.
(also, your now page link is not resolving)
The only way a website gets added there is if the owner emails me, and I checked out the /now page, and decided to add it.
Every now and then I get a submission that's like "We here at XYZ widgets are currently focused on quality, service, and low prices." I don't add those.
And there's absolutely no monetization on the website, and never will be. It only takes a few minutes per week to do this.
Point is: please don't worry about enshittification of /now pages. What Akash is doing here is a fun project, and /now pages in general are not going the listicle direction.
While I do have media on my now page, I still do have some sections that are updated manually (mainly the top half of the page). To me travel is more important than media and a lot more of my friends ask me where I've been recently, hence why I put that higher up on the page over the media stuff.
Anyway, might be something for me to think about later on if I decide to switch up the format (which I likely will)