The price is that you pay more -- effectively, you are paying for that branding.
I've had so many bad experiences on Amazon that I am increasingly doing just that. It doesn't apply to everything, but it is a useful strategy.
Not that I'm convinced it will keep working, since reddit isn't really a vendor in the same sense, and doesn't have those incentives.
I just wrote my own "rant" on the matter and posted it here along with the start to fixing them:
Yes, your frustration with the Internet and modern business is real
This isn't obvious to me. How do you know this?
The thing about users getting entirely banned from a platform is that they aren't able to complain anywhere near to the forum about unfairness. It's all done in stealth.
Platform algorithms now often do a lot to keep dissent about platforms themselves and partner companies out of sight. It's pretty crazy how companies that publicly advocate equality and fairness serve to undermine speech when it's about their business.
Last winter people got fed up with antivax-dewormer-nomasker bullshit and a lot of subreddits just took the trash out, so those complaints you saw might just be be those dumbasses.
I'm not saying there aren't annoying powertripping mods on Reddit, e.g. r/Linux, but there always tends to be an alternative subreddit one can use.
Though Google is at fault for letting their service falter to the "payola" race, many other factors are in play all across the Internet since data quality has faltered almost totally. For major-cost and non-refundable purchases I need to trust, I go to brick and mortar stores and inspect what I am buying. I am thankful not everything has shifted to an online-only model. It's going to be a very bumpy ride on the Internet until Congress and consumer protection laws wake TF up and do their job.