On the other hand, Google+ as a project was an aberration, and the guy mostly responsible for it has left the company. My question is, have Vic Gundotra's superiors learned the proper lessons?

That said, the Google+ real names insanity removed all my trust in the company's products at that level, and I'm only now considering doing business with them due to their low cost of cloud storage and trusting them at the technical and operational levels more than Amazon.