I'll be honest with you: I have been having more trouble finding mods than with the mods themselves. Also, I've always stayed away from the controversial/political subreddits, so I never experienced much of "power tripping" mods.
The one thing that I have noticed is that I have been reaching to quite a good number of mods on Reddit to see if they would be interested in migrating their communities, but the absolute majority of them seem to really act like "landed Gentry", they complain about Reddit, but are downright apathetic to any type of change. They keep saying "being a mod is not fun/thankless/source of abuse", yet they refuse to let go of the position.
I left all "popular" groups when I posted in a "anti-vaccine" group pointing how how one guy was so far off into the weeds that he might circle around to be being right someday. The mere fact that I posted in there over some ludicrous article/comments got me banned in 9 different "popular" groups, some of which I'd never even been in because I dared to post somewhere "unapproved".
I have similar experience with reddit. First few times I got banned it actually impacted me. I thought I really messed up or did something wrong, even tried to have a conversation with the mod team. Then I realized being banned from most popular subs should be worn like a badge of honour because it just means you're not part of the circle jerk.
The one thing that I have noticed is that I have been reaching to quite a good number of mods on Reddit to see if they would be interested in migrating their communities, but the absolute majority of them seem to really act like "landed Gentry", they complain about Reddit, but are downright apathetic to any type of change. They keep saying "being a mod is not fun/thankless/source of abuse", yet they refuse to let go of the position.