Same here, it’s muscle memory at this point.

Mostly through Google, which kind of proves the point.

everyone already searches reddit by adding “reddit” to a google search. putting ads in the native search kind of confirms nobody was using it

Are they now just saying the quiet out loud?

Let’s say I’m a middle manager. Do I need to worry?

What do we do about it?

Fair. I leaned on AI, for the code and for picking and drafting a lot of the recent additions. The comments in the source were its working notes; I’ve stripped them from the build. I overstated “by hand” in the post: the rules and the final say are mine (no algorithm, no tracking).