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.
I became really disheartened when I saw people earnestly engaging in obvious bot reposts, or how effective the bot strategy of taking one response and copying it as a reply to another worked - the discussion was so mundane that sometimes you wouldn’t even realise.