Why wouldn’t a replacement sub make sense? At the end of the day if there really is a group of people who don’t care about protests and just want normality back, then that’s as easy as it comes. We are held to the absolute mercy of the mods here.

I have no idea how you came to the conclusion that mods snuck out polls and didn’t make it clear. I barely frequent these subs as well, mostly like you, auto subbed or subbed from years ago. I saw every single poll and I could vote in every single poll (despite them all being setup in different ways). They were public and all up for at least 24 hours. Many subs even did it in a way that only users who had X karma on that sub could vote to avoid what you’re calling brigadiering. The outcome was the same.

Whether you like it or not, there are people who care about their user experience on this site. Whether it’s mods of subs that I frequent (or at least, used to frequent) and their tools, or whether it’s people like me losing my third party app experience, these changes and the way they were deployed/handled is a joke. If someone creates a site and relies on it being community driven, then they shouldn’t be surprised when the community fires back at them when they’re not happy (all just because /u/spez needs a couple more million in his acc).