

My point is not that it’s not weird at all, it’s that in addition to quoting completely false numbers, you put forward a comparison that makes absolutely no sense. The numbers compared are not “weird” or “not weird”, they are absolutely not comparable.
You have to remember that APIs were used massively by third party apps users.
I don’t see a reason to attribute the API related drop more to automation than users stopping browsing reddit because third party app ban.