I have an almost identical RSS experience using emacs+elfeed+firefox but with the added bonus of being able to filter out articles (eg sport) that I'm not interested in. Plus I can read many other feeds beyond BBC.
If you actually try access bbc.co.uk using Lynx, you'll see it's just not a great experience. Most modern websites are not made with text-based browsers in mind at all, and the HTML (and other stuff) they are made of does not lend itself to easy or intuitive display in the terminal.
This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.
My own government luckily even offers to reach out in your stead if a company doesn't respond to your disclosure, so pen testing random websites seems implicitly allowed, but such a vertict is still scary to read for such an innocuous probe.
https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/51354070.jpg [edited]
Would be interesting to hear why this over a general purpose text-based browser like Lynx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.
Speed of rendering
Consistency / limited styles
Keyboard controls
It is possible to achieve this other ways. But what’s interesting that for example Visual Basic or Borland C use a windowing concept