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I kinda feel like you're not wrong here, because tbh if it was just a matter of charging me for a premium membership and making me put in a key somewhere in rif to validate my api calls (as much as I really hate myself for saying this, too) I absolutely would've just considered reddit another sub like my Gamepass or Spotify that I happily added into my (meager) entertainment budget.
If Spez hadn't gone after 3rd party app developers like this and instead had framed it as a 'this is a growing pain part of reddit's development, and in order to sustain growth/blahblahblah/whatthefuckever we need money from you 3rd party app using fuckers' I honestly would've been like, "well, you're a greedy fuck for ransoming the last decade+ of my online activity (basically) but ok, fine, I'll buy premium to maintain the status quo."
But wow, to mishandle such a huge deal THIS cataclysmically badly? And then double down on that, in some weird, tone-deaf defiance? Fuck you, man.
I may not have set it up or anything, but this was a test that /u/spez failed miserably - even after being allowed an open-book retake with the questions he missed marked.