It's the funniest (and in my mind a way under-appreciated in this discussion) thing: The people they are driving away are the power users, the exact people who

It's the funniest (and in my mind a way under-appreciated in this discussion) thing: The people they are driving away are the power users, the exact people who power the platform. These people are the creators of the content Reddit is trying to monetize the consumers of. "Providing an API costs money", but so does providing chairs for your employees to sit on, yet that doesn't seem like such a crazy thing to be doing "for free". These are the people powering Reddit, without them it is nothing.