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Getting rid of 3rd party apps was obviously the goal...
Reddit wants people to use their own app, so they get the data
They could have done that by being better than 3rd party apps, but that's hard.
So they charged them an insane amount of money, knowing it would shut them down and leave only the official app.
Yep. The goal was to kill all the apps to normalize using their crap. Same thing Google is doing with youtube: make adblockers difficult so that paying for YT red is normalized.