the thing is I quite like G+. I'm not a heavy user, it has flaws, but I am interested in what they are doing with it. If they were folding Reader into it in some meaningful way, I would feel a lot better about it.
Sure, it's far more efficient and profitable to make an integrated platform with all major features at hand, I'm for that too, what bothers me is that I don't have full control over my data.