He said it, because reddit was always friendly and now they're doing a 180 on them with very short notice; no time to phase customers out or spread some of the cost out, just BAM "you get 1 month to switch to the new scheme or adios losers". Public companies have to basically become fascist to do what wallstreet expects of them, which is to let beancounters rule all decisions rather than listening to engineers and other employees.