I feel it's a strange consumption pattern to rely on a single news source, when Google News or Apple News is a much easier way to follow a story.

It makes more sense to follow the stories you care about rather than simply the sources you trust. Even if you trusted the NYT, many of their articles aren't going to be relevance to you. It's like going back to the old school RSS model where you scroll past a bunch of articles.

I would also point out Axios, which has been praised by Sarah Sanders when she was the WH press secretary, and has an interesting way of summarizing news as digestible bullet points.