And all of these changes didn't have to happen at all, since Reddit worked perfectly already. It wasn't fancy, but it worked, fit lots of information onto the screen and didn't annoy you with modal related crap.

Which makes me wonder... why even change it? Why do all large websites seem to change their designs at seemingly random? Is there a hatred of a website's design just staying the same for the foreseeable future? It's like this is done just to give their engineers something to do...

Ah well, I guess it at least works a bit better than YouTube, whose every design change seems to exist purely to break some piece of the UI that everyone depends on and to make things less usable than they were before.