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Reddit wants to show ads and to collect user data.
The best answer I was hoping for here.
When the original app dropped, I was a user of the app for a good while, because it gatekeeps the Reddit Chat feature outside of web browsers. Reddit's official app is very Instagram like, so what they are doing is making the UI show posts in such a way that you as a casual user cannot distinguish between ads, astroturfing and real posts. Instagram's content is 2/3rd ads (actual ads and influencer reel ads), for reference and context.