... and to be honest, this might not be such a bad thing. For simple articles, G+ is about a billion times better than blogger, and would make a pretty good replacement for many people.
Indeed, ideally as part of such a move, they'd enhance G+ a bit[1] to cover the areas where it's currently weaker than blogger. Then everybody would win...
[1] E.g. better support for formatting articles; curently it only supports a rather pathetic subset of markdown.
