I mean I can understand charging for it but make it reasonable. In that Apollo post yesterday he said that he has a deal with imgur (which he says is similar to reddit in API requests) which charges him around $130 per 50 million requests whereas reddit wants $12k. It's an absurd amount of money to ask which convinces me they're doing it specifically to snuff out 3rd party apps forcing their users to use their terrible apps on iOS and Android. If so then I'm perfectly happy deleting my reddit account and using a site like this or something else to get my news/interests.