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I am worried that this change may reduce self-posts even further. After all, they will now have to compete with a host of other low effort links. I think that there should be separate sections for links and self-posts.
My impression is that activity begets more activity--if there were 0 posts today, having your self-post be the post for the day is more bothersome than if there were 10 posts today. But we can look at this in a month and see how it turned out.
I don't think it is bothersome. It is a trade-off between getting less traffic because there are more posts to compete with for attention or getting more traffic because there are more visitors in total. In most sub-reddits with links and self-posts, links end up dominating
In most reddits images end up dominating because that's the lowest common denominator content. In subreddits where the content is mainly articles, I don't think self posts do badly. For instance, I just checked /r/math and they seem to be more self posts on the front page than links.