Things like the fact that the way the state of Ohio decides the amount of funds allocated to the school districts being found unconstitutional in the 90s but them still using the exact same system to date is probably a large portion of it.
Spacemanspliff
Honestly the answer there is simply that he had to charge a smaller number of users more. I'm not defending it to be clear, it's just how it seems to be.
While I totally understand your frustration, and I myself have moved on to jerboa and still sub here and have the app installed, but haven't opened it in over a month.
This is the exact same dev style sync has always had.
This isn't Reddit though.
That use to be a feature is some reddit clients.
We don't want to see them go extinct, but we don't want their numbers to get so high we know they exist.
Because they pretended so hard and so well that everyone bought it for a while.
Figure it has more to do with his celebrity status
Honestly his personality being kind of annoying makes it more enjoyable when he does something disgusting.
I dunno, I feel it could have shortened "more to come" and saved 14% (assuming my math right which it probably isn't)
Too niche and the people who are paying for premium podcast content also probably feel more like supporters of content creators then someone buying a big studio movie.
I'm sure he has a gay cousin he hasn't spoken to in 30 years who he's perfectly tolerant of.