How do I delete or hide the “Today” and “All Unread” smart feeds?

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Hi there, (iOS user here!)

I have just starred my first article to mark it so I remember to come back to it later (when I’m in a space to focus and enjoy that post). In order to access my starred articles I appear to need to expand the Smart Feeds section at the top of the app. I’m ok with doing that of course, but I have had it collapsed this whole time because it’s too tall and I didn’t need any of its options. Now I do need “Starred”.

I want to always be able to jump to my starred posts but I don’t want to see the “Today” and “All Unread” feeds, which I don’t need today and probably never will. How do I hide those feeds? If it’s impossible, how else can I quickly access my starred articles, whether within one feed or across the whole app?

Personally, now that I’ve engaged the “Mark as Starred” feature at all, I wouldn’t mind if a star icon appeared in the top right of the app (on the main menu as well as within feeds) to jump to my favorites/starred list and/or to filter a feed by starred (rather than unread). I guess that is a feature request.

Also, this forum software is abysmal for writing forum posts on iOS. The “new topic” form is a sheet which ostensibly includes a textarea but somehow my keyboard (and Safari navigation controls) covers this paragraph literally as I type it. I cannot see what I’m typing. I’m not sure this is a tolerable aspect of any support experience—the”type my question” part of “asking for support”doesn’t work.

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I want to add that AFAIK all built-in Apple apps have support to get rid of or hide the “collections” included by default in the main library view. Examples:

Music > Library tab > ellipses menu > Edit Sections, options to hide/show and reorder the built-in sections ex. Playlists, Artists, Songs, Albums

Podcasts > Library tab > ellipses menu > Edit Library, same kind of screen as in Music; options like Shows, Channels, Categories, Saved, Downloaded

Books > Library tab > Collections screen > Edit button, same kind of screen again, albeit also shows your own custom collections this time, in their own section; built-in options like Want to Read, Finished, Books, Audiobooks, PDFs

There may be more examples but those are the apps I semi-regularly use.

edit: I forgot to mention that Music (or iTunes) also comes with lots of default smart playlists that I don’t need and deleted ages ago. I don’t know if they even show up on iOS or not, but they include defaults like 90’s and Classical and maybe My Top Played. I am not sure if it’s possible to restore them, but while Apple provides them by default, it also there doesn’t assume you want to keep them. The examples above are the closer comparison, but the point is the attitude is consistent. Sometimes you really don’t want what the app gives you by default.