Check out NewsBlur. It spun up out of the demise of Google Reader. https://NewsBlur.com

My feeling is they looked at their user numbers, and the specifically those using the API and/or 3rd party apps, and did the calculation to decide that they wouldn’t lose enough people to cause a mass migration.

I think whether that calculation was correct or not still remains to be seen.

Laughs in BBS

or

Laughs in Newgroups