I like my groceries bagged to my specifications.

This is 100% the reason I use self checkout. I really can't stand my groceries being bagged in a way that essentially guarantees that something is going to be smashed, ripped, or spilled. Or that the paper bag is going to rip itself to shreds as I try to carry it in.

I most recently had a guy shove way more heavy shit into a paper bag than was even remotely reasonable and then tell me, "you gotta grab it from the bottom, the handles always rip off." And I'm just standing there thinking to myself that I almost never have handles rip off the bags when I bag it myself. Which means that this guy is consistently overloading the bags every single time, causing the handles to rip off.

I don't particularly mind if you're going to stuff the bag full, but double bag it for fuck's sake. You're making minimum wage or near to it - you're not getting a goddamn bonus if you use fewer bags to help the store's bottom line.

I'm in the same boat. I don't particularly mind using reddit during my work day because I can still do that in a web browser via old.reddit and RES. I honestly have no clue what new reddit even really looks like because my user experience hasn't changed in YEARS.

But I'm bitter as fuck about my personal time wasting ritual outside of work being seized from me. I've used their app a handful of times for different things and it's fucking abysmal. I'm just not interested at all in using it. I feel like a smoker being forced to quit. The period between now and whenever a "sync for lemmy" app is released is going to be long and painful.

But I'm here, and will do what I can to help this platform become something better. It's been incredible to watch it grow over a period of weeks. It felt so empty 4-6 weeks ago. Now it kinda has a "dorm move in day vibe." Boxes strewn about, doors propped open, everyone sorta mingling and chatting, asking/answering questions, giving tips, and a general air of excitement. Pretty cool.

I've seen this but I'm curious as to why, if you have more information?

You can't quit! YOU'RE FIRED!!

Because the goal was never to get some kind of fair price for using the API. That's why they priced it at "Fuck You."

Ultimately what they want is for people to stop using 3rd party apps entirely because 3rd party apps either don't show advertisements, or they show advertisements that give ad revenue to the developer.

They want everyone using their app because the valuation of tech companies directly correlates to the number of eyeballs they can serve ads to. Old.reddit will be next, and I bet they'll try to start blocking ad blockers after that.