Yep, you are exactly right, that is the only proper solution.
Like you say, though, the proverbial "community" doesn't seem any closer to building that then they were when Google Reader was created in 2005.
I had hoped that the demise of the proprietary Google Reader would finally inspire the creation of such an open standard, but so far all it seems to have inspired is more crap like Google Reader...
(But, lacking the good solution, I would still pay for another crappy proprietary solution in the meantime.)
Like you say, though, the proverbial "community" doesn't seem any closer to building that then they were when Google Reader was created in 2005.
I had hoped that the demise of the proprietary Google Reader would finally inspire the creation of such an open standard, but so far all it seems to have inspired is more crap like Google Reader...
(But, lacking the good solution, I would still pay for another crappy proprietary solution in the meantime.)