What upsets me re RSS these days is how many people were apparently so reliant on one reader that they still publicly mourn every time it comes up, 12 years later. Who are these fair-weather feed followers who threw their hands in the air with the loss of exactly one product?
The other problem was that Google killing Reader was a signal to the broader web to move away from RSS. RSS has kind of limped along since then.
Are social features the main selling point of RSS readers? I mean I just use mine to know when there's a new blog post/webcomic posted on a few sites I follow, without having to give my email or use another platform like social media to know about it. And I'd use the social features which are present on the blogs, under the control of the blog owner(s), if there's any. Or maybe my use case is not the most common one?
Though I agress about the signal Google sent by killing GR.
All so they could clear the way for Google Plus. And look how that turned out.
So yeah, watershed moment, the point where the scales fell from my eyes, still justifiably pissed, fool me twice, etc etc etc
(Still using RSS daily, though I lapsed for a while).