Literally all those changes where strictly because reddit is only valuable for Ai training data.
It started when google bought access to said data, and we where forced to stop using third party apps.
Google dropped out of the deal and no one wants reddit. Reddit is full of bots, and pro palastine "hate speech" so in order to be valuable for Ai training data it has to use ai to moderate and kick out anyone who doesn't produce valuable data, or is potentially a bot. They only want verified I'D users who don't bring up issues that show up on googles front page.