I'm not sure the good wording for it, but it's sort of the "it's not the crime, it's the coverup" situation. Some small set of folks were mad about the original

I'm not sure the good wording for it, but it's sort of the "it's not the crime, it's the coverup" situation. Some small set of folks were mad about the original API stuff. The response to those people was so wild, acrimonious, and abusive that it pushed a lot of other people over the edge. I would probably have still been using Reddit today if it was just the API change, but at this point I've quit out of almost pure spite.