You can go to a normal store and buy a device using fuchsia today, it's just not advertising that is the OS under the hood. That is why I do not think what you said is the same thing.
Reader was killed in 2013, Chrome already had ~40% market share by then. It may have not been as dominant as it is now, but Chrome was already a major influence on the web user experience.
> Better UX would have helped adoption and would have led to Google keeping the RSS button
The most obvious people to have improved that UX is the browser... aka Google. The way that XML rendered was controlled by the browser. This all sounds like Google apologism.
How do you evaluate this? Claude is horrible at performance analysis without data, does it have a feedback loop here that actually moves the needle.