The way that Christian and other developers were treated by reddit, their administrative team, and their CEO, is just abhorrent. There's no justification to explain their behavior. It's just so cold. To attack someone from a position of power for simply defending themselves, after attacking them for a mutually beneficial compromise, is just morally bankrupt behavior.
I don't blame him (and others) for just wanting to stop the relationship with reddit. Even if they backpedaled, there would be no trust left.
Considering the COVID pandemic is still mass infecting people (with somewhere around 1/10 people getting Long-COVID, and some percentage of those people being disabled long-term) and now it's leading to weakened immune systems and fungal infections, my guess is another mass health-disruption event is what we're on the brink of.
Or maybe mass homelessness and poverty. Does anyone remember that two-parter from Deep Space Nine where they go back in time with ghettos in San Francisco? Past Tense. It was set in 2024.