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Reddit power users are overrepresented as users of third party clients and old.

They have an outsized influence as content sharers/creators rather than consumer, so annoying them is worse for reddit than it might appear.

Source? It’s plausible that most third party client users are power users, but certainly not the other way around.

I still use old.reddit.com. Anytime I can opt out of "next gen" React interfaces I'm going to do it, so my M1 Pro processor doesn't melt.

I still use old.reddit. For my reddit usage it's perfectly fine and if anything finding things in the new UI results in a terrible experience for me.