Why would you possibly assume reddit's leadership team isn't completely inept? I would need extremely strong evidence to think anything but. reddit got lucky

Why would you possibly assume reddit's leadership team isn't completely inept? I would need extremely strong evidence to think anything but. reddit got lucky - right place, right time, and locked in a strong enough network effect to stay alive despite the best efforts of their leadership. Look at their atrocious UI. The clumsy desperate attempts to drive users to an app. The boneheaded copycat features that never quite work, or are just downright baffling. In an alternate world a smaller team would have focused on site reliability, mod tools, and a small set of features that made sense. Use third party ad tools until, or if, you get a better homegrown solution. With this route reddit would have been profitable and probably good. Instead...