You lost me riiiight abooout here. Seems a bit overblown.
> I only care if it hurts me.
Got me back right here. I care if it hurts Giz editors, too.
> I don't want to have to make that extra click.
Whoops, lost me again.
> And operators work the way you expect them to.
I'm back! You're touching on it here, but the part that is seriously fucked up in Google's corruption of its own search engine with Google+ inclusion is even more infuriating. To make it all compatible, the '+' operator was dropped, and they didn't really let us know.
More info: [groups.google.com]