Relay was (yup) one of the third party apps that survived the API-calypse. But this sort of model is unsustainable in the long run, given that the competitor (the broken native app) is free and unlimited.
The obvious future monopoly of the broken native app is bad for the platform in the long run, given that Reddit always sucked off ideas from third party apps; and now there’s no incentive whatsoever to make it better, after Reddit Inc. killed the better competitors.
If the paid API wasn’t rolled out as a complete trainwreck I’d probably be paying. And probably wouldn’t be here, too.
Relay was my app for 12 years so I wish him well with this but I’m not planning on going back to using it or reddit.
Sorry that was a rhetorical question.