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I agree with pretty much your entire post, but do want to disagree with a part.

> The fact that Reddit seemingly refuses to even consider this option really confirms that this is being done purely out of spite over both not being able to monetize OpenAI’s training data collection plus spite over most of the third-party apps being more financially stable than Reddit currently is.

I think it's a combination of spite for the LLMs (which IMO is short sighted, they will just turn to scraping HTML), but also they assume that they can make more off the data vacuum and ads serving to those users than even Reddit Gold would pay them every month.