It's not that I don't agree with you about the low quality of web reading experiences, and that many articles themselves are low quality bait, designed to tease, rather than inform. I resnt the time wasted on checking out articles, skimming them, and realizing they're crap, and am equally annoyed by the distractions inflicted on readers attempting to read quality long form articles.
But unlike you, I find it relatively easy to parse an article, decide quickly whether it's worth reading or not, and allocate cognitive capacity (if it's complex) or engage reader view it looks to be simple but I want to zip through it quickly (eg articles that are a straightforward list of facts).
I'm all for it if this tool is helpful to people; I just wonder if it's solving the real problem.