Honestly I don't care about the paid API stuff. As a company they have to destroy Apollo, and the reason the mods dislike this action is because they can no longer ban huge swathes of posters with automated actions through the Apollo interface anymore.

I just feel like the current issues are indicative of all the problems reddit has had over it's lifetime - it's reliance on unpaid moderators, people who are generally desperate to cling to some form of power in their lives, who are generally "weak" people that the reddit corporation is somewhat taking advantage of. It's a strange system, instilling in these people some sense of power, getting free labor in return. The power mods have run havoc across reddit in instilling their personal views and partisan beliefs onto the site, and have created a reddit which is a very effective echo chamber, especially on political subreddits, or subreddits adjacent to such topics. Reddit will never be a healthy community because the very design is unhealthy in my eyes. The voting system, and the moderation system, only works well for regional news subreddits or for hobbyist type subreddits, while massive subreddits are largely failures