>First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards (50+ awards right now, but who’s counting?) and all the steps that go into actually awarding content. Second, redditors want awarded content to be more valuable to the recipient.<p>So, nuclear option, of course.<p>The "clutter" of rewards is something recipients take great pride in. I have never, ever, been privy to a convo where a user griped about there not being enough payoff for an award that was GIFTED.<p>The "steps" involved hitting the "award gold" button, and being taken to a very standard e-commerce checkout process. What "steps" are there to complain about?<p>my 12 plus years on Reddit says this is fishy. Awards slow the doomscroll down, is what I suspect the problem is.