Having been here a while, I can say that we've apparently lost site of the roots of the community that originated on the subreddit, and while I don't see a way to reverse this decline, I think it's at least worth talking about.
Essentially the level and tenor of the discourse has altered dramatically; I've gone ahead and listed out the type and style of the high quality content we saw back on the day on the upper half of this diagram, and done what I could to contrast it with the sort of typical content and user type we see now. I think any objective observer will agree this is a downgrade.
Posting itself becomes the consequence of a failure at the level of primary deity or deoform. There is no longer the separation of poster and post, as the posters maintain within their own beings the timeless echo of the fundamental error of the original poster.
This poster speaks my mind.