You know before websites became the norm to access informations, the main way to follow topics of interest was both newspapers and publications, and those required subscription or a price anyway. Since i did not grow up with the internet all the time, i used offline means to get informations, and i am fine with it. I never needed reddit as a primary source of informations, i can cut down my usage of it by 100%. If we want quality we still need to pay for it, with few exceptions most free sites just exist for ads.