I think the great power of RSS is being able to quickly sift through information. I use newsboat, so every title is on a single line and information density is therefore at its max. I can quickly skim through a day's worth of news articles from dozens of sources, blog posts, youtube channels, journal articles, pubmed search hits, hacker news posts, and reddit posts, in hardly any time compared to visiting these platforms individually and sifting through one at a time.

For my hundreds of feeds, I get through them in like 10 minutes if nothing peaks my interest, then I'm done with the internet for the day. It's so liberating to be free of platforms that insist on the infinite scrolling and other dark patterns, such as bloated pages full of empty space rather than content, that force you to spend more time engaged/addicted.