I've been using rss2email (https://github.com/wking/rss2email) to read rss feeds in mutt. It works well for me.
I think my dissatisfaction with mutt + rss2email is more about RSS in general. It amounts to just being a short description of the article and a hyperlink, and at that point I might as well just load these websites in my browser.
I need a better article scraper. General solutions that try to detect content, like Firefox's article mode and similar, don't do enough.
We need youtube-dl for text.