spez is a frigging billionaire. What other principle than making money could possibly have guided him to this point?

Considering how “ban evaders,” even when changing devices, moving to different countries and setting up new accounts, are getting miraculously detected and swiftly banned again, I doubt anybody has even a shred of privacy on Reddit.

Exactly this. The bots are coming from inside the house.

You mean a sudden escalation.
The current class war has been going on for decades.