Based on using the site, I believe most of their effort goes into making their video and image display code as bad as possible. There is no other explanation for how terrible it is.
I bring this up only because I find when I do this blaming of <other non-build people>, I often miss the problem that is actually in front of my face and can actually impact.
From my experience: as a game dev we ALWAYS know when a game sucks. Maybe some director or other director level person strongarmd it, so it's not like engineers can't be blind. But as a general consensus, I've met very few "bad devs" from a technical POV (a vector consumers often like to attack when they see bad gameplay). We work with a bad hand and we almost never get the extra time needed when we try to show publishers. Fortunately, it's a lot easier now to argue for delays than over a decade ago.
But RES has stopped feature development in 2021. If it's not there, it's not coming anytime soon.
> It's unfair and unwise to undercut reddit inc.'s development work. Get gold!
This is about Gold but it might be a more general "we do not step on Reddit's toes" kind of rule too.