YouTubers got really pissed off with Google+ comments, but that has calmed down now because really it's still just comments below a video. What that did though was it made people (who may never have even tried +) really annoyed with it. But for RSS, imagine if they forced people to read it on +, there would be uproar.
Having to open a new tab with an auto-playing video to see the comment someone replied to is not okay. Having to do it for every comment in a long thread is not okay. The only reason people have stopped talking about it is that talking about it accomplishes nothing; Google just wants their site to be shit.
