I wonder, if in retrospect, Google kept Google Reader if only to avoid the constant nagging they seem to receive about "killing RSS". Been on the internet for d

I wonder, if in retrospect, Google kept Google Reader if only to avoid the constant nagging they seem to receive about "killing RSS". Been on the internet for decades now, I don't think I ever missed or cared about this so-called assassination. Yet, every chance they get, there is some group of hardcore RSS enthusiasts who can't keep talking about it. Very strange to me.