someone had to pay the cost. Apollo (as iOS app) and other 3rd party apps should be able to charge its users rather than ranting over news and shutting down.
Considering Facebook pays about $500m a year for content moderation, it’s probably not in Reddit’s best interests to alienate its free modbase
Eh, I hate the model of giving free access to grow your userbase (which has contributed back to the platform through content), then leverage that later for profit. Either provide access for free, recognizing that in doing so you gain externalities through the added user engagement, user data to mine etc, or just don't do it. The only caveat would be the problem of LLMs etc mining all of reddit for free via API.