So why is all the grinding on things like "New! Now you can play games in a huddle started from a +1 button made in Lynx" instead of "ignore people from this stream" and other social network noise-control fundamentals?
I submitted a bug report/feature suggestion for squelching my acquaintances. I want to be able to keep track of these people but I don't want them polluting my stream. Google seems to be of the opinion you either see them, or you don't know them.
False dilemma. It's possible that they are working on both.
It's possible, but given these were raised as issues in the first few days that Plus launched, and in the meantime they've managed to do a large number of big ticket but utterly frilly items like games, Occam suggests screwed priorities somewhere.