I really doubt this is the case, from my experience with other Google products. On Google+ valuable screen real estate is devoted to telling me I could follow popular entertainment people, or trying to get me to chat, hangout, et al. My android phone is chock full of things I can't get rid of, things that start services which if turned off turn themselves back on, etc. To actually use android I had to finally break down and get a gmail account, and found that my youtube account switched irrevocably to gmail. I was not asked, and there was no undoing it.

Everywhere I turn with Google I am being forced into a Procrustean bed, and you tell me that everything with Google Now is totally configurable so that it'll fit me. Sorry, at this point I do not believe you.