The moderators don't add value.
Certainly there is a toxic tendency for some mods to become power crazed, assume a higher understanding of the world than the lowly non-mods and mod everything into oblivion.
There is also sometimes a tribal back-slapping tendency that doesn't always weed out this nonsense but encourages it.
I don't know if that is involved in this case.
As far as I recognize, none of them are among the resigned. They'll probably be more prominent now that reasonable kind people like Monica have been removed.