Not sure but there seems to be a lot more bots on reddit. Entire threads with hundreds of comments from bots are all around reddit.

I can't dispute this, but since you shared an anectdote I will also. I haven't seen this in any of the communities I visit personally. Do you mean bot accounts which are passing themselves off as real people and karma farming? Or bots that self identify as such to fill a legit need?

not out to defend reddit here, it also feels to be going donwhill to me, but this is not something I've personally experienced on the site yet

"everything i don't like is a bot"

How else do you explain people who still post on /r/politics or /r/whitepeopletwitter?

There are lots of terminally online people on the Internet.