Your suspect was right :) I remember many discussions about this when G+ was in its infancy. Obviously for Google the best thing would have been for G+ to becom

Your suspect was right :) I remember many discussions about this when G+ was in its infancy. Obviously for Google the best thing would have been for G+ to become facebook - but that was, and is, impossible. So, the second best thing would have been (imho) to beat FB at the openness game, attracting first the developers, and then their users. Alas, they chose a different path.