I received 4 new keyboards over the life of my old MacBook and swore I'd never buy a Mac again. Apple wanted to charge me $1000 for a 5th logic board/keyboard. I did end up getting a M1 Max MBP, and I guess the $395 is nice. It'd be nicer if Apple admitted it was a defective design and recalled the product.
i still love RSS feeds. if you just want to display RSS feeds, I think it's better to focus on a niche. If you want to let users manipulate feeds and do complex interactions then I think a wider range of categories is OK.. but try to narrow down a few different niches to target and try to attract to your site.
Wordpress.com is a hosted implementation of Wordpress, which is available at wordpress.org. It sounds like you should research the available blog platforms out there. You can google search "top blog platforms 2014" or something similar to get an idea of what's possible.
The upside of Wordpress is that there are thousands of themes and plugins that come close to what you want. The downside of Wordpress (especially on this website) is that many developers and designers are tired of it. The code is bloated but will probably be your best bet to use because of the large community surrounding it. You can edit anything in the self-installed version, but you can also break it which is why wordpress.com doesn't let you edit the HTML.
Do a google search of "Best _____ Premium Wordpress theme" or "best ____ wordpress plugin" with whatever your ideas are and see what comes up.
Maybe the poster means wordpress.com is not capabale enough? To me, Wordpress is a self-hosted platform and overly capable as a blog. It's also pretty capable for any other CMS-based site.
i love it but it would be cooler with a full screen UI, there was a soundcloud api hack that would play people's loved/favorited tracks that kind of did that..