I'm not sure if link rewrites for RSS will solve the content isolation issue completely, Alex, but yes it would be plenty for me if it's included in the viewer. I'm really excited to see the "real thing", and hope it keeps a lot of what Sunrise has provided.
That's also true as Hacker says, that the site interfaces each have to be maintained. But if it's not too complicated, I don't mind that. I wouldn't want to maintain a library of hundreds or thousands of sites, but for the feeds that I want, I'm willing to do some simple tweaking if I don't have to be a tech guru to do it. Heck, I have almost as much fun setting stuff like that up as I do using it
The problem with Sitescooper for me wasn't the out-of-date .site files, it was the out-of-date Sitescooper community. No support or active forums. Versions were incompatible between Sitescooper and iSiloX. I was prepared to invest a little time to learn about Sitescooper, but it got too messy for my taste to make it work, and I wasn't willing to dig in one more layer down. Besides, I guess I'm really in consumer mode now, so I prefer something that is packaged up nicely and just works, even if I give up a little functionality.
I don't know what the the new Sunrise viewer will be, but it seems like it will be a simpler version of sitescooper functionality combining RSS feeds and web clipping, as well as a viewer. If so, that's just what I want, so I'm very excited about it. I look forward to seeing it this summer if it's still on track for that timeframe.