[donohoe]

I have grave concerns that this publishing format is delivered to us by two people that, as far as I can see, have limited to zero publishing background.

That said, they're being responsive to questions in Issues, so I remain optimistic.

[acdha]

Learning about the history of RSS should alleviate your concerns. Brent Simmons has been working in the space for 15 years, writing one of the more popular clients and working at a company which provided sync and syndication services:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetNewsWire#History