While it is certainly sad the direction that reddit is going, there is just a little bit of joy in watching the public meltdown after all the user hostile decisions they've made over the past few years.
There is not one single new feature added to reddit since before the redesign that has actually added value to the platform for a user.
I've used this tool. It deleted my history.
I then checked by googling "reddit {username}" and found a bunch of comments that were restored.
Reddit is playing games.