The redesign made things worse and only worse:

• Login walls for random communities
• Actively user hostile mobile website that doesn't respect "use desktop site" and tries to funnel people into the app
• Redesign and mobile app are bloated wastes of resources that do less than old.reddit but using several megabytes of Javascript, unusable with anything less than a stable 4G connection
• Full of whitespace and rounded buttons that waste screen space, they expect everyone to have 1440p monitors to have a decent UI density

That last bit is the rub - if they'd made improvements with the main app or new interface, maybe I wouldn't want to use RIF... But they chose uber enshitification instead.

Of all the features added since I joined in 2018, only two I found truly useful, especially with the death of other sites. Gallery uploads and polls. That's it.

Everything else? Useless cruft or stuff that died out where that time and resources could've been used to fix new reddit and the app.