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From a business perspective, it never made sense for Reddit to support free API access for third party apps for as long as they did. Now, they are effectively killing those apps. The thing "not based in reality" was expecting it to go on as long as it did.

>>paddw+(OP)
Social networks are a two-sided marketplace.

In the case of Twitter, power users who posted the best content almost exclusively use third-party apps for the extra features and usability they provide, and the ban on those amplified Twitter's quality issues.

You have many people in this very submission saying they will quit Reddit if Apollo becomes defunct.