Ah, thanks. Sounds like some serious coding hours went into it, but maybe just not enough.
It was just a stupid move. Kinda like Reddit Mold or that stupid timeline thing they did. My personal take is since they skunk the functionality of the entire site on Apr 1 why don't they use it as a big fuckin' open beta? Dump a new feature on everyone and see what they do, kind of like when they turned everyone into an Admin. My recommendation in the secret halls has been, for the past three years, that Apr 1 is the day all the defaults go private, forcing every Redditor to subscribe to subreddits that interest them rather than subreddits that have been forced on them. Every year for the past three years I mention this too late. Maybe I'll suggest it earlier next year.