It all goes back to reader. That's when it went sour. They eroded all trust. No one forgets that one.
March 13, 2013, a decade ago and RSS effectively died along with it. Being upset at this for 10 years is right up there with being upset that Gopher protocol never took off.
Ok, consider me pissed about gopher too then I guess? I mean, you knew the exact date and all didn't you?
I looked it up.
https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation
At the end of the day, I'm super glad they have experimented with things and it seems weird to hold that against them.