took a deep dive into how CEO Steve Huffman went from being Reddit’s co-founder to its much-needed savior at a difficult moment—and how he then became the villain at the center of Reddit’s still-raging protests: https://slate.com/technology/2023/06/reddit-protests-steve-huffman-api-chaos.html
… and all of this after saying in January that there would be no API changes for the foreseeable future “except to possibly make it better.”
The whole timeline of events exposes Reddit as a very poorly run company lacking a planned out roadmap.