> It will really go into freefall when they go public later this year,

I mean the only thing the founders/investors want is to cash out, nothing more. they don't care about what reddit becomes after they IPO.

> Reddit's product is authenticity.

It has not been authentic since Trump's election. It has become a PAC, tangentially something else, but mainly a way to push partisan politics on every single subreddits including the subs that have nothing to do with partisanship.