Trying to use it while logged out in a private session on mobile is an absolute joke. After the page loads, you get the "Download the mobile app" nag that takes up half the screen and that you have to dismiss. As often as not, as I'm trying to dismiss that, the "Sign in with Google" nag pops up over it and I accidentally navigate away to their SSO flow, have to hit back, wait patiently for the popup that pops up over the popup, dismiss them both, then just read the text on the page that I intended to read.
Credit where credit is due though, up until a month or two ago I'd then also get hit with the Quora-esque "Make an account to continue" nag that blocked reading if God forbid I scrolled too far down the page. When geohotz went to Twitter, I recall him saying if nothing else he would get rid of this garbage anti-feature and sure enough I've not seen it since.
GP mentioned slowness, not UX choices (on which I agree). They’re two different (but slightly overlapping) issues: incompetence and policy.
They choose to make the experience suck for anonymous users, but no one chooses to have the app react after 3 seconds on an iPhone 13 (looking at you, Reddit)
Credit where credit is due though, up until a month or two ago I'd then also get hit with the Quora-esque "Make an account to continue" nag that blocked reading if God forbid I scrolled too far down the page. When geohotz went to Twitter, I recall him saying if nothing else he would get rid of this garbage anti-feature and sure enough I've not seen it since.