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Actively working against themselves with this crap. It only looks like it could make them X amount because of how the system currently works (and by "system" I mean Reddit, its formerly free API, and all the third party apps that leveraged it,) and how popular it is.
These changes drastically alter the entire system, fundamentally changing it, in this case for the worse. It is very likely going to result in a large loss in popularity because of it. "X" is now no longer attainable. The whole system is now significantly *less* capable than it was before, and people are going to leave as the knock on effects continue to degrade the entire platform.
If RIF gets killed with it, I'm certainly done here.
There's nothing here!