I wouldn't necessarily shame the developers and designers that were just doing what the PM/leadership at Reddit told them to do while getting paid to do so. It's a job - nothing more.
The downside is the developer has pride and cares about building a good product. Not about whatever insanity the Reddit "leadership" wants done to their platform.
The developers themselves are every bit as authoritative on this topic while also not having been caught out lying. Given that, you'll forgive me if I choose not to put my chips with Reddit management.
I didn't down vote but lots of devs don't have that sweet luxury to not be held accountable for what they're working on in quantitative business terms.
They can make that decision if they want, or they can wait a bit to hire a more experienced dev for money money. I wouldn't say it's their "role" - nobody's forcing them to do so, and if it doesn't help them, I don't see why they would feel obligated to do it
I'd be so wary of continuing any work on any connected application if I were the developer. They may have an exception for the moment, but Reddit hasn't kept any of the promises they've made to third party developers when it counts.
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