How can you leave out daemons?

If I put on my tinfoil hat, I think Reddit might have a long-term plan here.

• Hike up the API price to a point where 3P apps like Apollo will have to shut down, making them worthless, after so much was invested in them

• Get users upset with the lack of features on the official app

• Make the 3P app developers look like bad guys

• Wait a month or so

• Publicly offer to buy a popular, and now worthless, 3P app ^for way too little money^, in order to use the features for the official app

• Point out that the 3P dev is a monster if they don’t sell, since it would help users so much, and Reddit is a Community, after all