[direwolf20]

If I subscribe to a small number of low volume feeds, I want to read everything or voluntarily ignore it, and the UI helps me with that. If I subscribe to a higher volume feed, I can't possibly read everything and it's not useful.

I can subscribe to both types of feeds.

Unread emails don't mean someone wrote to me either. Most of them are marketing or confirmations of autopayments.

[tufo]

This somewhat sums it up for me quite well, the article discusses a real problem i have, but glosses over that it is not true for all. I want to be able to have my "email like" feed for low-volume stuff i want to read all from, whilst such a "bookshelf" mode that was mentioned at the bottom would in my opinion be perfect for some high-volume rss feeds (hn for example)