It's not what they're doing, for the most part, but the way they're doing it. I don't think many people begrudge them to implementing a paid API to recoup the

It's not what they're doing, for the most part, but the way they're doing it. I don't think many people begrudge them to implementing a paid API to recoup the costs of third-party clients. But they've set the price way too high, with practically no warning, defamed an app developer and then went "lalalala we can't hear you" when people, rightly, pushed back. All while using dark patterns to push users to their (objectively awful) official web and mobile apps. Power users (especially mods) just can't use these to do what they need to do, Reddit doesn't care and now Reddit is - effectively - killing off 3rd party apps.