Yup. It's just as "obvious" that this shows that management is willing to make the big necessary decisions to preserve revenue and take back full control of the user experience.
I'm not defending Reddit at all, but very often what annoys users is what's good for business (e.g. ads), and so users complaining isn't necessarily a bad sign to investors at all.
I would actually say nothing here is obvious yet. Reddit doesn't seem to be in any danger yet, but it really depends on whether user dissatisfaction snowballs or fizzles out, and that's one of those chaos-theory things that nobody knows, and different potential investors will have wildly different opinions on.
They don't have to lose that much for a problem to exist
If we go by the 1% rule, their main value creators, which are more likely to be a Power user who could be affected by the degraded experience, you only need to affect Creators and Mods for the house of cards to start shaking
> They don't have to lose that much for a problem to exist If we go by the 1% rule, their main value creators, which are more likely to be a Power user who could be affected by the degraded experience,
I dunno. In my experience it's the power users who are the last to leave a platform. Whether we're talking OSes, Office suites, etc, it's always the power users who remain after everyone else gets fed up.
In this case, the 1% value their high karma account and name-recognition on the platform more than they dislike the reddit changes.
I am willing to bet a small amount of money that Reddit will continue being fine even with these most recent changes.
It's not that obvious.
To me, at any rate, it's not at all obvious that reddit is in any danger of losing a significant number of their members.