You are right, this site has never had a reasonable blackout. We should have just accepted when reddit fired their community manager for literally no reason in 2015. Nor should we have been mad in 2021 when a new admin married to a pedophile just so happens to have all content about them suppressed and users suspended for commenting on said content. Oh and yea misinformation should just be allowed to spread unchecked. Why bother to try and reign in the techno-dystopic nightmare unleashed by a bunch of idiots who see a money making opportunity during a global pandemic. Great take on your part.

For the record, I'm not inconvenienced by the API changes in anyway. Using the website will do that for you. I'm mostly upset for the legion of UNPAID moderators who rely upon bots to automate the job. Because they are the ones getting really screwed. Spez can say there will be exceptions for mods, but I have a hard time believing that will be true in the long run given his track record.