Having written the article, I am most certainly not outraged at Google+, nor do I think it is the reason why Google is losing focus. I am also not using it as "

Having written the article, I am most certainly not outraged at Google+, nor do I think it is the reason why Google is losing focus. I am also not using it as "linkbait nonsense". Google+ is a Google product that ties up all their services and as such, makes a ton of sense. The whole point of the article is to alude not to how good/bad Google+ is (heck, the article has nothing to do with Google+ at all - which you probably noticed, or should have), but how Google would be so much better if they looked back at their roots.