Yeah that's some interesting points brought up and it's both sad and terrifying that this is the direction that they want to go in. It's bad enough they're aligned with the CCP (Tencent) and a liberal/left-leaning media company. The death knoll would definitely be the day we start seeing subreddits maintained by 'approved' staff who're just studio puppets trying to pretend they're hip with the Reddit crowd. It'll be hilariously embarrassing but I can't think of a worse fate for a so-called "free expression" of a site like reddit, than for it to go through those changes.

And they'll lose their numbers rapidly until that's all that they have left is advertisers.

Hopefully they'll come here, where we're waiting just to tell them "we fucking told you so, for so long, you stupid fuckers".