I do mind them promoting their app, it’s a horrible app and they’ve continually ruined their website. The only way I can stand to use reddit anymore is through Narwhal, at least until they kill their 3rd party apps API.
Random aside: I've long been very down on web tech, but those 3 have sort of reinvigorated my interest in web stuff.
Not Mozilla's fault
On my phone I use reddit is fun. I have no issues at all with reddit atm in terms of them fucking with my experience.
Legacy mode will be phased out as soon as it has served their purpose of smoothing over the transition.
Or, it will be allowed to die of neglect, slowly becoming less and less compatible with the site until fully unusable.
I miss old reddit, nothing else really fills the niche in a unified way.
Reddit and Facebook both have some hold for me because of niche communities that they both let me aggregate/monitor/interact with easily, without going to a myriad of websites. I really don’t want to have to do that - in some cases, I’m not even sure I can find comparable replacements.
It is interesting because it's related to what I do but different enough to be fascinating.
Folk would probably move over to something like voat.co
There will be other places for you to migrate to, as there have been for decades, if not an entire generation.
I use Boost for Reddit (Android) and the old reddit style, and RES in my browser. I see why they are going towards the Instagram style route - people generally like what they are accustomed to; and I guess more people use Instagram than Reddit.
It's already frustrating to view v.reddit content in 3rd party apps.