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Same as the other comment - irrelevant. This article is not about API pricing. Not about the blackout. It's about reddit trying to save whatever ruin there's left.
If you wanna focus on that part then the second part of my comment still stands. Reddit can't survive without the work of unpaid moderators and saying that it was a mistake to give the users freedom is kinda stupid. The whole point of Reddit is that users have freedom, remove that and Reddit doesn't work anymore.
Not having the ability to have a private subreddit would affect very little for the absolute majority of users. Actually - what is even the point of a private subreddit? Private messaging has existed forever.
Anyway, I digress. This article feels to have been spawned into existence purely because the authors had nothing better to do with their lives.
I'm not sure I agree, it is about the API pricing because that is what the Mods are objecting too. The article highlights the surprising outcome that Reddit feels it is better to threaten mods than back down on a clearly very unpopular decision.
Is this path really better than changing the API (and API terms) to make third party apps include their ads, plus perhaps a nominal cost to cover the expense to rhem? I don't claim to know enough of the details, but this move doesn't look likely to improve Reddit, or Reddit's value in the short, medium or long term to me.