The economy has turned in a way that speculative platforms like Reddit now need to get a big boost in profitability. The problem is that companies are not monoliths. So while the people making your product may be great and therefore able to build a significant platform, that doesn’t mean that the people in the more profitability oriented positions are equally skilled. Until recently these businesses have been coasting along on easy investment money and so the pressure for those staff to be good at what they do was low. We’re now seeing those people flailing around like the chairwarmers they are when they are now being asked to earn their keep. Since they mostly made the mistake of assuming their businesses were successful because of them, rather than irrespective of them, they aren’t willing to hear any sort of legit negative feedback about their actions.