I use Feedly too, but the lack of other decent feed readers or aggregators suggests that there really isn't a user demand for RSS. OTOH, many sites and news organizations post to Twitter as a rudimentary RSS feed. Google probably could have adapted Reader into the social platform they wanted.

RSS (in the sense of using a reader to track a personally curated set of RSS feeds) is pretty niche these days. One audience is journalists who really do want to discover news from a variety of sources faster than someone else does.

Most people are fine though with just using social. If it's noteworthy enough they figure they'll learn about it soon enough. Personally, I do have Feedly configured but I confess I don't use it systematically any longer.

I'm still a bit puzzled about Google shooting Reader. Keeping it would have been a tiny effort and it doesn't seem much removed from a mission of selling ads (excuse me, organizing information). But, then, Google has largely walked back/de-emphasized pretty much all their information curation projects other than straight search.

You want theoldreader.com. Very similar to GR without the social features.

I use it to, it's nice and clear.

They nearly collapsed under the load a few years back when Google cut GR, nearly shutting down. But now it's solid, and they seems to have got financial backing.

There are few limitations (100 feeds max) with a free account, but for me, it's enough.

I've been using Digg Reader. I have never used Digg for anything (is it more than a news aggregator), but the Reader replacement is really good.

I use NewsBlur. It also isn't as good as GR, but it gets me by.

Try inoreader.com. I think it came closest to what GR was.

Try bazqux.com