I guess you had to be there? "it's just like Google Reader" means it's NOT as good, but close enough. GR was solid and we LOVED it, especially the search. I think RSS readers are one of those things that some of us LOVE and we're still bitter that Google took it away. Maybe it was the first big thing Google cancelled? I know for me it was, and I've not trusted anything new from Google since. Maybe that's it... before they broke my heart with killing Reader I really believed they were different, that they really tried to "not be evil" and then POOF one day my favorite thing on the web was gone.

I guess you had to be there, I know it sounds ridiculous.