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>What was the pent-up discontent about?

Lack of moderation tools, unresponsive admins, accusations of shady conspiracy stuff (payola, censorship, etc), there is other stuff. I don't care to list it all but you should look into it if you want your arguments to be taken seriously.

>Removing awful subreddits?

As has been related to you many times, that is a recent issue.