FreshRSS is amazing. Super powerful. I used to use tt-rss but it was unstable, limited in its clients (API emulation) and a very hostile developer.

I would like a way to totally remove the sidebar, I don’t want or need random anything. Wouldn’t that make page generation faster as well?

The Xbox controllers are amazing. IMO the best triggers (especially for racing), and a hugely popular button layout. Clips are easy to find. Explicitly supported by iOS (although you can actually use any Bluetooth controller with iOS, it's just really not obvious)