Welcome to hearing absolute noise from the vocal minority. The only people who complained were third party client/tool developers, some of whom were making mon

Welcome to hearing absolute noise from the vocal minority. The only people who complained were third party client/tool developers, some of whom were making money off of them, and mods who at this point are infamous for their desire for power and authority. Reddit squarely targeted one and then the other, and they won because the silent majority (aka the vast majority of users) didn't care. With regards to the mods specifically, it could even be argued the silent majority sided with Reddit simply from how down in the dirt the reputation of mods is. Put another way, what you witnessed was the digital equivalent of those socio-political protests, attended purely by crowds of high school and college students, while the rest of society continued on paying no heed.