&gt; RSS feeds were just never easy enough for most people to bother<p>Set up a wordpress site, you have RSS built in. Set up a drupal site, you have RSS built in. Set up on Squarespace and you have RSS built in.<p>Pretty much every off-the-shelf CMS has RSS with zero effort, you have to actively turn it off. It is only the people who put a bunch of work into building a site without a CMS that don&#x27;t easily have RSS.