I used to be in the same boat. I still occasionally checked the mid feeds for my subs every once in a while. Very quickly though, the amount of decent people making posts plummeted, and the amount of asshole trolls skyrocketed. And on top of that, the reddit mobile app is wet hot shit for moderating, so even that was obnoxious.
You misunderstood, my sub is private and the only member is me. This enables some 3rd party apps to still work. I still use a 3rd party app to visit Reddit.