Some people, given the tiniest amount of power, turn into tyrants. People who moderate are either passionate about the subject (seen in subs with fewer than 25k subscribers...random number I just made up), or just like it that they are "in charge" of the large subs. Effectively moderating a sub with 7 million subscribers requires a lot of moderators. When you see the same 5 names moderating 92 of the top 500 subs, and banning people from all of them for saying something the disagree with on one of them (not breaking rules) then you see what a dumpster fire reddit has become.
Some people, given the tiniest amount of power, turn into tyrants. People who moderate are either passionate about the subject (seen in subs with fewer than 25k subscribers...random number I just made up), or just like it that they are "in charge" of the large subs. Effectively moderating a sub with 7 million subscribers requires a lot of moderators. When you see the same 5 names moderating 92 of the top 500 subs, and banning people from all of them for saying something the disagree with on one of them (not breaking rules) then you see what a dumpster fire reddit has become.