[this_user]

That version of reddit was created in 2005. The world has changed a lot since, and users are expecting certain features. If you don't have them, you are going to struggle to grow nowadays. For instance, the majority of users are on mobile now, so you need to offer them a proper UX.

[EA-3167]

Considering how many people use Old.Reddit I doubt that you're right in this case.

[vhcr]

I'm a mod at a >100k subscribers subreddit, and old reddit represents 2% of pageviews and 6% of uniques.

[EA-3167]

It isn't that simple, for example I don't use old.reddit as a URL, but I use RES or another program to force it into the old configuration regardless of the URL.

[raydev]

What source do you have for this metric?

[pie420]

The vast majority of reddit users would pay extra to strip away all of the features and have a barebones 2005 version of reddit.

[Gigachad]

The vast majority of reddit users have no idea what the 2005 version looked like and have only ever used the mobile app