Hi, I also use freshhrss. Self hosted, low maintenance.

No problem with the images and the feed is quite consistent if you just tag and manage subscriptions in an ordered manner.

I recommended you to organice your feeds being consistent in what do you want to see in the “main stream”.

P.s. also activate “mark as read” “while scrolling”. If any site dumps a bunch of consecutive articles I just mark that stream as read and move on.

Good luck!