Yeah, all the last Google products have been firmly in the 'miss' category, but no matter how much Buzz or Wave suck, Reader and Gmail too awesome to stop using.
But - I did turn off every single sharing feature in all Google apps I do use, I don't have a public profile, etc. Better safe than sorry.
I don't see how Wave can suck when it's not even implemented completely yet. It would be like complaining that Email sucked back in '73 because no one used it.
Wave sucks not entirely because of its implementation but because its adoption is not as widespread. Wave in itself is an excellent web app that have changed the way I collaborate with others. Its biggest mistake is how they rolled it out. They should have polished it more, both in terms of speed and stability and made it all out access just like Buzz (minus the buzz mistakes).
Wave is a very solid app. It doesn't suck. IMO YMMV.
Yeah, I still see it as more of a tech demo. The underlying infrastructure for distributed real-time editing is pretty amazing (at least, as far as I can glean from what they've written about it), but the particular webapp they built on top of it at wave.google.com is somewhat underwhelming.
But - I did turn off every single sharing feature in all Google apps I do use, I don't have a public profile, etc. Better safe than sorry.