For reading, do you prefer books or ancient scrolls?
I'm not saying your complaint is invalid, just that there are ways of mitigating the issue. And that said, I can't imagine how reddit threads would work if paginated.
Presumably similarly to HackerNews threads, which are paginated.
It's not that hard. I saw good example of paginated threads at livejournal.com: it paginates root comments and collapses large subthreads. https://ammo1.livejournal.com/1348094.html?view=comments#com...
Now on my phone it’s relatively easy to jump to the top of the page. It’s also almost done impossible to jump to the bottom.
On a desktop I can at least mash the END key or play silly reindeer games with the scrollbar thumb.
On mobile it’s very hard to Leap or Surge or Jump.
If I’m madly fanning the page with my thumb or, worse, my fingers because I’m tired with my thumb, I pretty much just give up at that point.
I also like having non-endless scrolling because I can use the scroll bar as a gauge of how much is left of the article.
Being constantly fed is just a bad experience.
But the biggest reason people hate as a matter principle is because it is in 99% of cases done without any UX research and without any care from developers, and that's in the best case. The worst case is to cause doomscrolling, which is nefarious in its own.
It is disrespectful to users. If you don't want people seeing old content just fucking delete it.
