I used to use RiF back in the day when it was still a buggy mess. I don’t even remember when I moved to the native app. I don’t agree with Reddit’s policy update (why I’m here) but I thought the default app was fine for normal browsing. I never had issues with the video player or anything else.
I use Samsung Galaxy devices if that’s relevant.
Yeah, chat was probably the only thing the official app had over Apollo. As you said, I just particularly like the UI of Apollo and think it’s bullshit that I’m being forced to change. The way they’ve handled this has also just been awful, like that AMA for example and their talks with the devs