I hear you. You get used to one of the clients, the really awesome nitche communities, start making friends (or at least start recognizing the user names) and then…rug pull. The clients were removed, a lot of the ways we communicated with said people got MUCH worse. And then you discover people are getting paid to post/comment on reddit, teh whole AI thing…just felt crummy.

The last thing you want to do is make it harder/impossible for your power users, users that love your platform enough to make a free app to interact with it to use said platform. Its so dumb they made a competitor thats still going strong to this day (US).