Reddit is removing the Direct Message feature, and all active conversations will be archived so you won’t be able to continue ongoing conversations. Reddit also deleted all bad reviews for their app awhile ago. Its rating went from 3.4 to 4.5 stars overnight.
My guess is that Google recently devalued the negative reviews from the API fiasco because enough time has passed. The reviews are (probably) still there, but those 1 star ratings are no longer in the “average” shown to users.
So you go back to your negative review, edit it, and insert a random space somewhere. Did just that.
The equivalent of this in politics would be grabbing all votes not for your party, and shredding them.
Should be illegal and the CEO should be fined billions for it.