[Tomis02]

Blaming Google for going anti-RSS is like blaming the rack when stepping on it. What did people expect to happen?

If you're looking someone to blame, blame the ones who evangelised Chrome and Google Reader when better alternatives existed. Back in the day we had Opera (the classic version) with amazing performance and built-in RSS reader. However, at the time, industry influencers promoted Chrome instead, a zero-feature browser with horrible performance (unless you had a relatively high-end PC with a multicore CPU, which was not the majority of users).

Many people (devs in particular, who should know better) use Chrome to this day. Oh well, the browser market is as democratic as they come, people vote with their usage. The conclusion is that people just don't care.