I completely agree. I am currently trying The Old Reader and Feedly. The Old Reader is close to the Google Reader experience, but lacks the mobile companion. Feedly is nice, but it adds too much Flipboard style functionality that I really don't want. Having Google Reader synced in the web browser and on my mobile devices is honestly a perfect product needing no evolution for me.
It's interesting how Adria attaches the importance of dealing with these men since they were sponsors, but then when dealing with it went completely from her personal platform. As SendGrid, her company is a sponsor, shouldn't she have run her response/reaction through the proper channels? This of course had an effect (hopefully short term) on the comment maker, but I think Adria will find in the long run she just shot herself in the foot in the tech space as far as further employment is concerned.