Hey, 0.76 is really getting there, specially as I've found a couple more useful settings to stop things happening. So I have:
Main window to the left, with grouped-as-threads set and auto-expansion of threads turned off. That gives me a column of subscriptions, and to the right of them a list of unread threads when I click on a subscription.
Then to the right of main window, an article window with the column for listing the articles, and the other column with a selected article.
So I click to select a subscription, click to select a thread, click to select an article (or just space through them). That's become very efficient. And a final click to mark all the stuff I couldn't be arsed to read, as read.
And the new feature with different identities having different signature behaviour is very nice.