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Can’t say I’m surprised.
They did say that they would do it, after all.
No this was literally just a part of the contingency plan. The whole point of their API change is literally to push out anyone even mildly tech-savvy, and keep all the people who blindly just scroll through posts and consume the ads just like other content.