RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
It is pretty clear why Google doesn't like RSS, it stops you from browsing the web and that is how they get paid.  As a user though I also don't like it anymore and I'll share why...This isn't 1970 anymore where I want to read "What's New" from a small list of new sources.  I prefer to go each day to a list of curated aggregators like HN or what the people I follow on Twitter or saying.  This is vastly superior to RSS and this is why at least one technical user no longer uses it.