You said it well.
A website that was created around sharing content of the internet, discussing it, evaluating it with their own system of upvotes and downvotes don't fucking let you share content outside of it anymore. What a joke.
Yep. Money speaks, man. A company (like Reddit) starts with good ideals but after it grows a bit the corporate interests get ahold of it and the goals morphs into make as much money as possible regardless of if that means screwing the users or not. I can't think of a company immune from this cycle. The only solution to this problem is something outside of it, like Hive.
It's like everything wrong with most gaming companies these days as well.