The context most of Reddit seems to be missing here is that Reddit will do whatever it wants and has many times before in anything they find unsavory.

When the speech police benefits the mods, they are all on board with it. Now that it doesn't, they seem so suddenly shocked.

These free power tripping mods standing up for themselves can be steamrolled by employees, and probably will be.

It happened to more than one sub I was in. They installed their own mods to 'keep the peace', and despite warnings that bad actors were at play, shut down the subs anyways.

Curious to see how this plays out.