And almost all of the RSS web services and apps I have looked at support OPML to import and export your feeds. It is really easy to move between RSS systems with minimal loss.
I can certainly see that for some (many?) people archives are important. I currently use Feedbin.com, and I have occationally searched for a past story.
Mostly, I bookmark and archive important articles, and use a search engine to find more general more none specific info
Tiny Tiny RSS: https://tt-rss.org/gitlab/explore
SelfOSS: http://selfoss.aditu.de/
Both include mobile apps and are open source with web based interfaces and JSON based API's to let you implement your own clients.