I’m heavily invested in sports. Literally everything when it comes to my team gets posted there first. There’s just no other way to get the content.
I suppose I could visit 20 pages a day and be on the lookout, but I’d miss the most interesting things, the discussion. Unfortunately they only happen there.
I can imagine many are in my situation, but with other hobbies.
I could move most news to RSS, but that would also mean an overflow of news and getting the same tidbit from 15 outlets. But regardless, so much of the great content and thoughts is user based. And that content I couldn’t get through RSS. And in all honesty, that content is much more interesting and valuable.