How to bring back Google's + operator

I see no comments here, and maybe that's deserved, or not, but this article refers to another article, one which I think should get some attention, because I like her explanation of how she used Reader, and why she prefers it to Plus.

"Courtney Stanton, a Boston-based product manager, called Google Reader 'the best social network created so far' in a passionate rant on her blog. 'For me, this is the destruction of the only online space I truly give a shit about.'"

http://kirbybits.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/wherein-i-try-to-e...