People don't hate Google Glass, its just too damn Expensive

Google Glass is currently focused on being discrete. It's unfortunate there's so much bad press.

I think they are probably trying to find a way to fit it inside of a pair of regular glasses frames, or to attach to regular lenses without being too noticeable. I'd be surprised if they weren't looking into projecting straight into regular lenses instead of having their own prism, but that's probably very difficult to do while accounting for different prescriptions. 

Google has already reduced the size of the battery on the last update.

Most people don't hate Glass, in spite of what a few tech bloggers seem to say. If anything, it has a reputation for being expensive, which Google can solve by releasing a consumer model that's appropriately priced. It's too bad that every project Google has scaled back before has eventually been canceled.