Still, going by the fate of new Reddit, there should be a 'hyppocratic oath' among UI designers, so that they make sure they don't make the user's experience worse in their quest for UX improvements.
Adding a ton of features almost nobody uses and rearchitecting the site using 'modern' frameworks, only to make it 10x slower goes right againts that oath.
Reddit's redesign sucks not because of new features or modern frameworks, but because they don't care about the web experience and spend all of their effort funneling users into their mobile app.
Adding a ton of features almost nobody uses and rearchitecting the site using 'modern' frameworks, only to make it 10x slower goes right againts that oath.