There is a difference in the online content of the Atlantic v. the print magazine. The print magazine still has some high quality content.
I would definitely appreciate a quality/triviality filter though, maybe the print is the only way to get it.
I like The Atlantic in general, although I think they have a bit of what I sometimes call a "contrarian bias", e.g., prioritizing "the conventional wisdom is X, but here's why it's wrong" think-pieces even when their theses aren't particularly strong. (Slate and Salon were much worse about that in their heyday.)