Yep! The 2tb torrent containing all of reddit: https://academictorrents.com/details/7c0645c94321311bb05bd879ddee4d0eba08aaee

If posting is restricted, then it will. Anyone who wants to make a new post or read new content would go to the posted link.

Not to worry, every post and comment on reddit has been archived, and is freely available as a 2tb torrent on Academic Torrents.

Maybe. But also maybe they were looking at internal data showing users leaving en masse to alternatives, and that was really scary compared to the known-quantity of what happens when the site goes down for maintenance.