Do you have a source for them losing money? I don't trust them; advertising aside, I think they've been covering most expenses just from users paying for Reddit awards.
Sure, maybe it makes sense from a business perspective to make their API paid-access only.
Maybe it even makes sense to make the prices so outrageously high it results in the subreddit mods striking. Perhaps this gives them the ability to remove the moderation teams and sell the spots to the highest corporate bidders.
That doesn't mean that we as users have to like it, or them, after these changes.
I'm just hoping something better comes along out of all this.
Sure, maybe it makes sense from a business perspective to make their API paid-access only.
Maybe it even makes sense to make the prices so outrageously high it results in the subreddit mods striking. Perhaps this gives them the ability to remove the moderation teams and sell the spots to the highest corporate bidders.
That doesn't mean that we as users have to like it, or them, after these changes.
I'm just hoping something better comes along out of all this.