According to Google Trends, during the past few years, there has been nothing but a few minor bumps that faded away as quickly as they came. I love RSS because i do not have to scroll through dozens of different news sites all day and i would love it to return.
EDIT: Typical case of people only reading the headline. I was asking why people are hyped over something that did NOT happen.
RSS is great for news, because you don't get told what to think by a 3rd party algorithm, you aggregate news from trusted sites (multiple) and decide what to read.
RSS also is extremely important for podcasts, that's how it gets pushed down to your listening app (except for specific ones like Spotify and whatnot that host the content)
There's always an "algorithm" that's biasing things though.
If you just grab the recent headlines from ABC, BBC or CBC in chronological order you're still getting your feed biased by what news directors choosing is worth covering. With public broadcasters you're hopefully getting less "clickbait" and more "this is important news the public needs". But, even then, there's going to be bias.
A third party isn't involved. An RSS feed pulls in the data from the source.
My point is that you find a trusted news source and you don't have Google, Facebook, Apple, or Xitter deciding what you should see.