I have exclusively been using i.reddit.com for at least 5 years now and it isnt pretty or anything but it loads fast and works. I use reddit to get to the content. The ui is just a tool to get me somewhere. I do not want a mobile app and the real mobile website takes forever to load and half the time im on reddit im just scrolling aimlessly anyway and the mobile website cannot handle it also its paginated and i want infinite scrolling. Speed of content on a link aggregator site will always be more important than appearance.

I fear they will remove i.reddit.com in the future because it does not have ads. It also does not have their fake posts that are actually ads and mark promoted that