If I consider it from the perspective of reddit inc, probably. Get some cheap labor where I can pay as little per hour as possible, and get rid of people who can strike without losing anything. The people I'll hire for cheap won't strike because I do unlikable changes like pushing out 3rd party apps or try to get rid of NSFW content. And if they do, I'll just fire them and replace with someone else.

Gets rid of a nuisance relatively easy, but degrades the quality. But reddit doesn't seem to care much about quality for the last years so.

Maybe Reddit has decided the free labor costs too much, even if the price is cheap.