I was thinking about that, and it's maddening and sad.
I too have always believed that scaring away the people who create that best content would be the doom or reddit, and it wouldn't take much since content creators are always a tiny minority of a social userbase, but what if u/criticalma55 is right?
What if "we" who value quality content are also a minority? What if the majority of reddit users are perfectly fine with bot reposts and shitposting?
I mean, I was active of reddit until the blackout began and I've seen several people saying they didn't even know 3rd party apps existed, many saying "I always used the official app, what's wrong with it?". I bet many people don't even know what's happening, and won't notice the difference if reddit goes on reposting stuff during the blackout, I've seen a few screenshots of comments that were very obviously written by AI, but how many will notice?
So maybe reddit is indeed trying to angry us as much as possible to push us all away and leave on reddit only the "low-information" masses that don't care and will take whatever shit reddit throws at them without battling an eye, they have enough content at this point to repost for years.