I don’t think the parent post is proposing that Reddit should restrict access to their own mobile app. They’re proposing that if you want to use a third party a

I don’t think the parent post is proposing that Reddit should restrict access to their own mobile app. They’re proposing that if you want to use a third party app, then put that behind “Reddit Premium+” or whatever. The average reddit user wouldn’t care or know so they would just use the normal reddit app with all its tracking and ads or whatever, which is what reddit wants right now anyway.