Could this be the right place and time to ask if anyone knows a good TUI RSS client?

I created https://github.com/jarv/newsgoat which is very similar to newsboat

maybe it could

I've tried out hys recently (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293564). It's been pretty nice, though new, I hit a bug where the feed list disappeared. There are a couple others mentioned in the thread, https://newsboat.org/ seems mature.

(For the record, that issue has now been fixed by the dev)