Welcome to the user-friendly to ad-friendly switch.
They went from being a tech-oriented/friendly company to a news-style company as soon as they were bought by a publisher.
An HN post a few days.
"Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942237
It's not just the horrible redesign. Reddit changed for the worse in every way possible. The quality of content is pathetic. All you get is just political ads pretending to be reddit content and reposts. But the biggest disappointment is their change in ethos. Reddit used to support free speech, now they support censorship just like most publishers and media companies.
When digg screwed up, we had reddit to fall back on. Now that reddit screwed up, there is nothing else to fall back on.
"nothing gold can stay."