This is an absolute joke yeah. The page even has a button overlay "This looks better in the app" which I would take as an insult if I was their web dev but each to their own.
I would just use another website but I can't find one that has a similar mixture of cat gifs, old memes, far left propaganda, and occasional science news.
The way that it only does that with that button really makes it hard for me to believe it's not intentional
You can't use an ad blocker (easily) in an app, so they get to show you ads.
If you decide to buy reddit gold (or whatever they're calling it now), then they get the money from that instead.
If you're a web dev working on the Reddit redesign I assume you're long past caring or any form of shame.