I find that using the Old Reddit interface with RES on desktop, and Apollo on mobile, more or less eliminates the icky parts of the Reddit experience.

The catch is that both of those usage modes are pretty much at the mercy of Reddit Inc., which could decide to "deprecate" them at any time they see fit. And given that Reddit Inc. seems to be planning an IPO, I imagine that those will both be on the chopping block sooner rather than later.

They have been hostile to old reddit for a long time - many new features don't work with it like polls, free awards, inline pics, avatar, and so on. But I bet they won't outright kill it, since the portion of users who use old reddit is still very big and they also tend to be power users who are very vocal.

> They have been hostile to old reddit for a long time - many new features don't work with it like polls, free awards, inline pics, avatar, and so on.

I didn't want or appreciate some of those features anyway. Old Reddit with RES pretty much feels feature-complete to me. In some sense it's also refreshing to use a popular social media UI that isn't going through constant redesigns and tweaks.

I don’t use Reddit in the sense that I have an account, instead I go through teddit.net using a privacy redirect browser extension, this lets me bypass their redesign by using a different front end.