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by boolemancer 1098 days ago
No, the current mods were picked by 15 years of natural selection, where mods that don't care about their role have had the potential to get bored and leave or have their community migrate to a different subreddit that more matches what that community wants.

Antagonizing a large swathe of your volunteer-base of active mods all at once and then replacing them with new mods who seem fine with that antagonistic behavior is not going to select for the same group of people.