The sense I get from reader being discontinued is that it was being kept alive as a best effort, and the effort was becoming too complex, too difficult to take

The sense I get from reader being discontinued is that it was being kept alive as a best effort, and the effort was becoming too complex, too difficult to take on without real staffing. I suspect "leaving the servers running" was what they were doing for the last few years, and it wasn't working anymore. Makes sense, until you realize that Google makes $10+ Billion in profit, and almost all of it it's because of the trust and goodwill factor from the online crowd. Once you start to maximize everything and refuse to leave a penny on the table, that trust goes