those people only cared about their position

probably not. This ain’t Star Trek, we don’t know how to disintegrate a community, beam it down, and reintegrate it in the same shape in a different place.

the fall of Reddit implies the demise of many communities that called it home.
maybe it’s fine in the long run, new communities form elsewhere and some of the people in the former end up in the latter, but it the short to mid term, it’s traumatic for anybody that was emotionally invested.

I see those open letters as last ditch attempts to preserve a status-quo where maybe people can pretend a little longer that everything’s okay.

in the end, everybody’s gonna grieve this differently. I don’t think it makes them bad people.