> Not really - the official clients constantly push content in which I (for one) have no interest, in the name of “engagement”.

Where are you getting that on reddit? I don't think I've ever seen content that's not normal posts in my subreddits. [Maybe it's been there the whole time but ad blocked away or something so I'm just never seeing it?]

I don't use r/popular, r/news, r/all, etc much if they're doing something different there.