Your title seems a bit click-baitish to me, but that could easily be my bias. I think it's great that Reddit has evolved over time rather than trying to force

Your title seems a bit click-baitish to me, but that could easily be my bias. I think it's great that Reddit has evolved over time rather than trying to force their community into what they think Reddit should be. I am appreciative that if I want to dip into few funny things to come out of things like 4chan I can, without having to deal with a lot of what makes places like /b/ so repulsive (gore, excessive porn, etc). For the most part when you remove the default subreddits from your frontpage and stick to the smaller ones (netsec, web_design, gamedev are some good ones) you can avoid a lot of what you are describing.