Having been here a while, I can say that we've apparently lost site of the roots of the community that originated on the subreddit, and while I don't see a way to reverse this decline, I think it's at least worth talking about.

Essentially the level and tenor of the discourse has altered dramatically; I've gone ahead and listed out the type and style of the high quality content we saw back on the day on the upper half of this diagram, and done what I could to contrast it with the sort of typical content and user type we see now. I think any objective observer will agree this is a downgrade.