“but it feels like old reddit”. My god, imagine actively preferring the new reddit UI. Let them keep their shiny jangling keys instead of coming over here and pestering the devs for a snoovatar feature or whatever nonsense.

The ‘maybe read for 2 minutes to figure it out’ miniscule barrier to entry is a feature not a bug.

1. you should always have external backups for your important data anyway

2. you can just export/import your user settings. You only lose comment history but you can just check that from a different instance if you want to.