Probably because reddit has made it exponentially harder to do just that. Likely for this exact reason.
There was that big kerfuffle a while back with reddit changing up it's API and breaking alot of stuff that all the tranny-jannies used to manage all the subreddits they lord over. This is just the end reason for it.
Why would you pay $60 million for a bunch of publicly available shit that you could scrape for free?
Probably because reddit has made it exponentially harder to do just that. Likely for this exact reason.
There was that big kerfuffle a while back with reddit changing up it's API and breaking alot of stuff that all the tranny-jannies used to manage all the subreddits they lord over. This is just the end reason for it.