Protip for rants: don't address the target of the rant as "You," since most readers here aren't Google, it reads overly aggressive. Also, enunciate why using G

Protip for rants: don't address the target of the rant as "You," since most readers here aren't Google, it reads overly aggressive. Also, enunciate why using Google+ is not an option or degrades the experience. Think of it from Google's point of view, all the comments you can't find now will be easily visible if the people who made the comments link their Google+ account, and on the whole, more people using Google+ (as unlikely as it may seem to an end user), the higher the quality of the interactions might be (I am playing Google's advocate here). So while the transition may be awkward or provoke a negative user experience, I think they are more focused on the end game, and unless you can make an argument against their likely end-game, this just sounds like you are an edge case who Google isn't trying to make happy anyways.