Sigh, every. fucking. time.
> I have never worked there, ...
or anywhere else where high traffic is involved, right? It's always the people without any real world experience who come up with these BS claims about how everyone else is stupid and how it could be done differently.
> ... but outside looking in, it seems like there is a significant lack of technical vision from them.
Exactly. You are looking from the outside at it. If you really think they lack vision you could make tons of money working for them and fixing their site, but you already knew that since you're not lacking vision, am I right? Seriously there are lots of good engineers working at reddit, learn about their constraints first before pissing all over their work in an uninformed HN comment.