I've thought the same thing. Looking at reddit, whenever someone complains about degredation of discussion, somebody pops up and says "just use old.reddit.com"

I've thought the same thing. Looking at reddit, whenever someone complains about degredation of discussion, somebody pops up and says "just use old.reddit.com". However, everyone else is still on new reddit, so even if you increase the quality of your submissions, the overall quality still drops.