I think, for some cases, it would make sense for an instance to host just a single community or a "family" of communities. programming.dev is a good example of this. Hopefully this will happen organically (communities will consolidate in instances that make the most sense for them).
Technical debt isn't technical
Great talk by Einar Høst at Devoxx UK.
One of the contributors said "you are preaching to the converted." But we, engineers, need to learn how to communicate these concerns with the rest of the organization.
After a couple of months of trying alternatives, I also ended up in InoReader. Closest contender was NewsBlur, but it had problems with some of my feeds (Yahoo Pipes feeds didn't work well, if I remember correctly). This was many moons ago. But since I'm a happy user I didn't consider switching to something else.