Two IMO on-point excerpts of the article:
The highest-ranked replies are very critical of the post. “What good is our feedback when reddit seems perfectly happy to ignore all of it?” wrote one user. “What’s the point?” Another pointed out that Huffman called mods “landed gentry.” “Show, don’t tell,” wrote another user — to which the admin replied, “Agreed.”
“A beginning of what?” replied one user. “This solves nothing, and just wastes everybody’s time.”
Reddit’s administration is sounding more and more like an abusive SO trying to gaslight you into staying in the relationship. “Baby I’ll listen to you, I swear.”
They had to learn reddit when they started to. And if that’s all their worried about, it’s just a delay and they have all the time in the world to figure it out. I didn’t think of that excuse as a hard rejection. But yeah there were definitely some people talking about that, too. And sometimes it was the same users zealously complaining about both aspects…
At least they gave feedback so we’re more aware of the pain points and what can be improved. Even if some % will be biased. Onboarding could certainly use some more more structure, that was valid criticism. There could also could be UX improvements to help make the functionality more intuitive. These are weak points which we can turn into strengths with time. Happy to say we can’t replace daddy spez, though.