Agree, and I really hope it does. Allowing unorthodox or taboo opinions is a sign of free speech, and a sign of health for a forum. What bugs me most about reddit is, everything is becoming about American bipartisan issues and msm propaganda; it's so stupid and entirely a false dichotomy. No room for nuance. Don't even get me started on Twitter.

eviscerated any debate about anything consequential.

This becomes the crux of it. In the hysteria about woke this or that, or other superficial issues, things don't shine through. Also noteworthy is that we're not allowed real change. The individuals that represent this get huge smear campaigns directed at them and are taken out of the equation entirely. It's incredibly disillusioning but a symptom of where we're at wrt democracy in the west. It's a mask.