>I may be misremembering but didn't Feedly step up very quickly? Even offering the ability to easily migrate everything over.
Other rss readers were either much different (think cards design, or too much whitespace everywhere, or whatever), or they had premium plans they were telling you about all the time, or they had premium plans and a low limit of rss feeds you could add, or they had no mobile apps, or the mobile apps required premium, or whatever.
Nothing was like google reader: free, information-dense, and reliable. When google reader was killed, rss died for me.