It's enticing to be able to view a smorgasbord of tailored info-bits---a feast culled and arrayed just for me. Using RSS feeds is arguably efficient, but it may not be fully experiential. There is something to be said for collecting information and forming impressions in context, rather than relying on a mechanistic zeroing in on content. It matters, for example, whether a story is placed on page 1 or buried within the middle of a publication. It matters what other stories surround the item on a given page. It matters what a blog looks like. All these browsable aspects of info gathering have import, and take time.
RSS is a tool, but not a replacement for engaging with the source.
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