Blogroll takeover - will anyone notice?

I'm sure you've all heard that blogrolling has been brought out by Tucows, the repository of freeware and shareware. I must admit that I don't tend to use Tucows as I tend to go to the authors directly, but when they are swamped with downloads then Tucows is a handy place to head to. Anyway, with nearly everyone's blogging software providing rdf feeds, including the free blogger, is there really any need for a service like blogrolling? Ok, it provides a list on your page of which sites you read - but an opml list can do that, and it also gives a nice star or other symbol by sites that have recently updated (according to weblogs.com) but getting the news from the site direct will also give you that knowledge *including* the content.....So what else does blogrolling give us? I must admit that although I have the list on my page its not updated very often and I don't use it now to keep up to date with sites that have changed, which I used to before I had a decent RSS reader. I know Iconoblog uses blogrolling, but I'm glad he's not asked me to explain RSS usage yet :-)