I just don't believe that you couldn't charge enough for a single user to be worth more, subscribed and in a 3rd party app, than they would make on the website as an advertising target.
Can anybody explain why they didn't do exactly this? I spend tons of time on Reddit in Apollo. I would have gladly paid $10 a month for app access. Keep the rate limiting to prevent AI training scrapers or something. Problem solved? What am I missing? There has to be a reason they are acting like this and so actively ignoring the users of 3rd party apps, right?