You'd think they could at least have slowly integrated Reader with their G+ vision rather than alienating a good portion of the users who have championed them for years.
They did slowly integrate some parts of Reader into Google+ and it was met with resistance.
Google+ Sparks was a kind of RSS/StumbleUpon thing. Flopped.
Reader sharing became sharing into Google+. Many in the Reader crew defiantly cried out against it and said they wouldn't share things if they had to use Google+ to do it.
It wouldn't have been all roses no matter how you cut it.
I think people are in the bargaining phase of dealing with their post-Reader era grief.
