I am pretty sure that I tried Feedly in the post-"Oh no, Google Reader is going away!" panic everyone else using the service was in at the time, and like you I could not replicate the feel. The Old Reader was the closest alternative I found among the several I tried, but soon afterwards Inoreader appeared with a very, very, very close-to-Google Reader feel, and I've been extremely happy on it ever since. (If only Inoreader would correctly open the comment link and not the original article in the HN RSS feed.)

Thanks for the link, but sadly...

iOS App - Android App - Windows Phone App

Not interested unless there's a plain old HTML over the web thing which Reader did well.

If you'd watched the demonstration video, by 0:34 in you'd have seen that Inoreader is indeed Web-based. I've never used any phone app for it.

Apologies, I wasn't able to stream the video at the time.

But it seems I've tried InoReader before, I'm giving it another shot.