If what they said they want us honestly what they want, they could give the developers much more time, make the process more in line with what other sites/applications do, and then do real open communication with the community instead of a joke of an AMA with planted questions and accepted answers. If they still ended to with protests (which they likely wouldn’t have), they should have engaged the mods in two way discussions.

Using a big mallet to play whack-a-mole with each new form of protest just makes them look worse and invigorates the protestors.

They had the option of just lowering the price of the API and providing more time for developers to implement the changes. But spez foolishly burned those options. Reddit is in a shitshow of their own making right now.