@evan it didn't have to be done on purpose, it didn't have to be pre-planned. It doesn't have to be a conspiracy.
the end result was similar. Users got sucked into Google's ecosystem, and an open protocol suffered for it greatly.
The point of all this is that harm doesn't have to be done intentionally, doesn't have to be pre-pondered and pre-planned, to be harm nonetheless.
Was the RSS thing pre-planned? I doubt it. Did it do harm to RSS? Yes. yes it did.