I'm on Reddit's dev team and yes, we're reading this. We read as much of the criticism as we can and incorporate it into our planning as much as we can. We have

I'm on Reddit's dev team and yes, we're reading this. We read as much of the criticism as we can and incorporate it into our planning as much as we can. We have a team of developers working on performance, and one of the nice things about the redesign is that we can make radical changes to the stack, if needed, to support better performance. There are a lot of core Reddit users that just like it how it is, which I get, but there is so much that can be improved. I could write pages about this, but just to give one example: one thing many people aren't aware of is how much work the moderators do to make Reddit a good place. Right now they rely on some pretty janky tools to do that work. The redesign allows us not only to give them better tools to do that work easier, but also allows us to add things like submit validations that prevents users to posting garbage to their subreddits which they then have to take down by hand. If you think we should just add those features to the old Reddit, all I can say is you've never looked into the sad, tired eyes of someone who has worked on that codebase.