That is the system we live in. Grow or die. I also curse u/spez. But I also think, if I were at his place (build a platform, sold it and now has to run it depending on investors): could I be better? Probably not tbh.

Saying it's just greed is not enough. You just cannot exists in this system without being greedy, you'll decline and fade away (either as a CEO or as a platform).

(If I would want to continue to run the platform, I'd probably just take the money and do something else.)

While this is great, I hope it's not too much. The system is really really promising, but still apparently needs a lot of work. Hope the refugees like me came to stay!

Reddit was quite bearable once you left the main subs and went to the niche stuff.
If this here gets big enough it will become like this as well i guess.

Then you shouldn't complain, but just wait till someone makes something suiting (will happen sooner or later). People do it for free, so, yeah, complaining is kinda not so nice. Asking kindly would be OK though I guess...