Did you not read the article?

Aw the beta is full :(

It's amazing how 1 person can fuck up a state so much

Huffman was supposedly so out of the loop – despite being Reddit’s CEO and apparently arguing in favor of third-party apps – that he didn’t realize “the extent that they were profiting off our API.”
“I didn’t know — and this is my fault — the extent that they were profiting off of our API. That these were not charities,” he told The Verge.

What an embarrassing thing for a CEO to say in an interview