iGoogle has been my homepage for some time and is my window into numerous google properties (gmail, calendar, etc). This is an unwelcome change.
Netvibes and My Yahoo! both seem to have deteriorated.
There are some things I don't like about it. The header is gigantic. I wish I could turn that off and add a few more feeds without needing to scroll. iGoogle has also been breaking a lot lately. I actually removed my Gmail feed simply because it never worked even though it was developed by Google themselves.
I'm sad to see it go, but it's better than the sorry state it's been in for the last few years.
That's what Super iGoogle is for.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ncindhlccodninkgio...
I don't get their rationale behind killing iGoogle. Sure, it's not sleek looking enough nor "social" enough... but are those enough reasons to kill it? Cost of support? This is a product people actually find useful, and many can't live without, isn't that enough a reason to keep it?!
On the other hand, I wonder how many people would care about it that much if it's Google+ that were dropped... That's actually something you CAN live without...