Eh, I wouldn’t call it an important feature. More like a perk.

Reddit’s c-suite is in this pursuit-of-profit-at-any-cost mode even if it means destroying the platform. I’ll go with a cynical yet general guess of they’ll replace it with something they think will bring in more money, that it will be exploitive of the user base, that it will make the overall experience worse, andthey’ll continue to ignore the actual problems that need addressing.