My perspective and opinion surely doesn't alling with - who ever is in charge at reddit. Almost exclusively all content is created by users - for free, for others - they provide a platform, moderation etc. yes. but I don't belive "this is the way" - without the content creators, they don't exist.
EDIT: sure sure they have their own app, you can use the website. The official reddit app is unusalbe to me - just for the fact of privacy invasion. I haven't even properly tried it for performance. Essentially shutting the door for developers of 3.party apps - which all together made reddit what it had become ... is like... yea. I'm done.
I recentely had do use reddits via web-browser from a public library computer - no adblockers or anything; I was honestly shocked abou the amount of ads and sponsored posts. It's too much. way to much.
maybe at some point a project - like reddit - just becomes too large to handle in a good way... I don't know. It's sad to see - I like(d?) reddit and I always felt it's a nice and friendly community.