There's definitely financial damage and I don't know how spez still has a job but it would take a long-running war to drive numbers down enough and I don't see that happening personally. Unfortunate but it is what it is
It doesn't matter what happens to reddit for me anymore. The best, most anti authoritarian users left for the fediverse. I've been getting pretty sick of reddit and this exodus means there's enough userbase here to replace it for my use case.