A lot of the attempts to replace Reader aren’t clean enough - they try to present the feed like a magazine layout or do other BS to dress up information, where

A lot of the attempts to replace Reader aren’t clean enough - they try to present the feed like a magazine layout or do other BS to dress up information, where Google reader was “just the facts”. It feels a lot like this old game that kicked ass for the time, but you realize the magic will never be back again. Google killed it almost certainly because it distracted from other money making opportunities, so a lot of us associate it with a further corruption of the internet in a broad sense - like intentionally making things worse to make money off the bad process. They win, we all lose a little bit.