The Google+ team appears scrambling to address user feedback: clicking the search bar I got the obnoxious page of featured content replacing the page I was read

The Google+ team appears scrambling to address user feedback: clicking the search bar I got the obnoxious page of featured content replacing the page I was reading, but it had a blocking popup that, when clicked, bounced me to the featured collections page. Not only Google+ knows what I should be reading better than me, but their left hand knows better than their right hand!