the op keeps highlighting how these actions affect rss feeds, including references to previous instances such as:
> when Mozilla bent over to Google's pressure to kill off RSS by removing the “Live Bookmarks” features from the browser
if hypothetically the browsers stop supporting the format, nothing stops dedicated rss/atom/json feed readers to work as normal. might be my myopic point of view but most users to still use the standard has predominantly used this approach since google reader days.