This is almost certainly intentional. It's been a trend for a while for companies to make their websites as shitty as possible so you're basically forced to use their app.
Firefox on Android with no extensions.
I refuse to, and I will abandon reddit when 3rd party apps stop working.
Still buggy as hell, but they are improving it.
Only when that crap can be turned off it will be as good or better than a year ago.