They planned on implementing a change, and we protested that change, but users and mods gave in and that change happened anyway. The protest failed.
You can reframe that all you want, but we did not accomplish the actual objective of the protest, which was changes to API pricing. We lost.
I was a mod too. A very active user too. I left. And I’m happy I left, but that’s just being happy that defeat doesn’t taste nearly so bitter because there are viable alternatives.