I don't see how you expect 3rd party apps to stay below 60 r/m, that is abysmally low for anyone but a single user (even still, it'd be faster to scrape the web

I don't see how you expect 3rd party apps to stay below 60 r/m, that is abysmally low for anyone but a single user (even still, it'd be faster to scrape the website at that point). Third party apps have all requests made by every user use their one API key, not one key per user. Even so, third party apps aren't non-commercial, the devs want to get paid at some point. If it were a complete overreaction, all it would take is a single reddit admin going "he misunderstood, actually it's going to be x".