Syndication and Propriatary Formats

Well, blogger and blogspot are cool because they are free, a key feature of their service. . .if I had to pay, I'd end up going with something that I have more control over, like TypePad. Anyways, just for yucks, I was playing around with syndicating this blog and found out that blogger now has XML syndication feeds, but with a propriatary format, Atom.

Ugh, I hate this. Why can't they stick to something standard rather than becoming a standard onto themselves? Now the feed reader I'm using has to upgrade, or I have to find a new reader. BAH. Big thumbs down, blogger!