I wish he was honest to begin with and said "Hey, we're no longer supporting third party reddit clients. I get you'll be pissed about that but them's the beans we have to drive more people to our app for money reasons"

Instead, this whole charade reeks of stupidity and desperation.

Yeah, that's exactly how I feel. Dude is telling us to stop using reddit unless we want to give him a carry, and I'm listening.