I felt that way until the other day. There was a post that got upvoted, seemed wholesome and innocuous, and then eventually someone pointed out it was borrowing material from an earlier post. So I go to check, and sure enough, the pattern of posts by the parent poster is very inhuman, to put it one way. Strings of reposts of the same thing to many many subs in a short period of time, over and over and over again.

I wouldn't go so far as to say reddit has been taken over by bots but I've started to wonder more and more about it.

I generally feel like things have subtly but noticably changed for the worse since the exodus but I can't name a replacement in general except for some topic specific forums here and there.

On the bright side I do think the new UI has improved noticably. I still revert to the old site often but the new site is better than it used to be.