The begging to install the app is intolerable. I don’t want their application. I don’t trust it. I have no interest in it. But that’s only half their problem. The other half is content - the comments are so low-quality, censored, unsubstantiated, and echo-chamber-y to the extent that it is not bearable or useful for discussion or knowledge acquisition.
Reddit will go down as having EEE’d forums and online communication as a whole. There are sufferingly few bastions online holding out from it.
I suspect the only reason they keep old.reddit.com alive is the is enough added content from users of that subdomain, while these users are also, at this point, the most likely to just stop using reddit altogether if it was remove.
I assume eventually that math with work out so that it makes more sense to just get rid of 'old' entirely.