yeah I've still been using Sync

Boost still works if you were a moderator prior to the "ban."

Thank god for my teeny-tiny private sub; Boost is so much better than the unusable official app

some are alive like fatbird but there's also joey for Reddit that shut down recently (mabye mandella affect)

There's an app which can change a Reddit client so Reddit thinks you're just another user with your own app.

They are just limiting you if you offer your unique ID to many other users, which essentially every app developer in any store does.