You make plenty of baseless assumptions about my background and ambitions... but I'm not even going to try to address my professional experience (or lack thereof) because it doesn't matter, since you're just using it as a straw man to deflect criticism.
The facts are as follows: 1. Reddit is one of the highest visited websites in the world. 2. Throughout nearly their entire history, they've struggled to put together a way to make money. 3. They have notorious uptime.
Of course they have talented engineers... it would be a surprise if one of the worlds most popular websites didn't.
That doesn't change the facts that they continue to look and function like they're straight out of 2005 (does their search even work yet?), lack a semi decent mobile experience, and have contributed essentially nothing to the technical community in their entire history.
True, but irrelevant. It also means they handle more traffic per dollar than probably any other site in it's category.
> They have notorious uptime.
Browsing https://reddit.statuspage.io/ for less than a minute proves this is hyperbolic bull.
> and have contributed essentially nothing to the technical community in their entire history
It's not like the reddit source code hasn't been open source forever. But sure, whatever you say. Would have taken you 10 seconds to Google before spouting off nonsense.