It’s really down to who you choose to follow. If their feed goes stale, then just drop them.
Yeah, it just always seemed like a lot of work to keep a feed interesting. Finding and following new people, reading through tons of junk you don’t care about. And then there’s the fact that you need to follow individual people/entities, instead of groups of people… I just don’t get it.
I also use Google+ some, but I mostly use the community feature there. It’s actually a pretty good way to keep up with things from specific Frameworks, Libraries, or Applications. I don’t really use the feed so much there, I just check up on specific communities every now and again.