This is in no way meant to be disrespectful about your work, but I would argue that if one great engineer can whip up something that provides as much if not mor

This is in no way meant to be disrespectful about your work, but I would argue that if one great engineer can whip up something that provides as much if not more than Google Reader, then maybe Reader wasn't really a good use of Google's time after all and it was right to let smaller developers handle RSS readers. It just isn't a Google-scale problem that requires the kind of resources Google has to offer, it makes no sense for them to maintain something than small independent developers like you can handle just fine.