I consider myself pretty reasonable, and I wanted the API usage to stay free. They were already making money from all this advertising. Maybe if they hadn't wasted time and resources on garbage features no one needed, they wouldn't have had to create this mess.

Honestly, considering the state of modern capitalism, someone at Reddit probably got scolded cuz some dickhead executive hadn't been able to buy enough yachts this year or some shit.

But if you force people in, it's a prison, not a utopia...