What about the fact that reddit closing API access does in no way stop others from doing the same? There are multiple archives of reddit all over the place, and

What about the fact that reddit closing API access does in no way stop others from doing the same? There are multiple archives of reddit all over the place, and it hardly won't stop just because they make the API paid. Instead people will scrape the HTML and extract the data there, which will surely be more costly for reddit than the simple JSON API they have (for now).