@adactio Which would be a nonsense attitude to take, given how easy it is to monetise.
* Subscriber-only RSS feeds
* Choice between full-text RSS for subscribers and truncated-text for free readers
* Literally all of podcasting

What I think they really mean is "we couldn't figure out how to add data analytics into it" or "We couldn't have absolute total control over who subscribers share private RSS feeds with" - both of which are non-problems.