I'm taking a bit of an enforced G+ holiday, and can't say I'm all that upset.

Search comprehensiveness and speed, the ease of interaction with the Notifications pane, and a few interesting people. That's its upside.

Streams, circles, lack of filtering, overall layout, client bloat, privacy invasion, crap and noise, annoyances across other Google properties: the downsides.

Though I'm seriously wondering where the hell the smart people are these days.