It&#x27;s not just apps. The server side seems to have been rebuilt independent of Google+. Like OP, I&#x27;m wondering why Google didn&#x27;t just find a way to give people outside of G+ direct access to the features inside it, which were already pretty good.<p>Google spends a lot of energy on supposedly optimizing UI when the biggest improvement to usability would be to avoid inconsistent and frequently changing interfaces.