You're in the minority and I'd suspect your anomalous data is lost in the noise.

While I think Google+ came out the gate as a budding Facebook killer, and given the initial internal alignment of the company tying everyone's yearly bonus to its success, I suspect Google was hoping for exactly that, no matter how much retro conning the tech bloggers spin.

Because the two things that killed Google+'s chances were first the ridiculous real names debacle which was a literal turd in the punchbowl corporate move, followed shortly thereafter by internally flip-flopping and reassigning the bonus for Google+'s success to the Google+ team and the Google+ team alone, safely ensconced away from the googler scum in their tawp sekrit(tm) tower on the Googleplex.