This is news stories though. You don't want to read the stories on one machine and have it show up again on another machine.

I suppose it depends on how you consume your feeds: do you look at the latest, like a social media timeline? or read every entry of some blogs, like an inbox? I definitely have some feeds I consume like the latter, and I need that to persist and sync.

Maybe that's the thing - the things I read on my cell phone and the things I read on my computer are fundamentally different. I am surprised that I seem to be in the minority on this, maybe.