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Eh. Reddit is very unlikely to do that. The subreddits would be overrun with trash pretty quickly.

Moderators provide much less unique/irreplacable value than the current narrative suggests.

However, the philosophical positioning Reddit has taken historically is that the Moderators own the subreddits, so yanking one away wholly from the moderation group would mark a substantial shift away from that positioning.

Maybe that's a good thing for Reddit, though.

>yanking one away wholly from the moderation group

Not much of a departure -- they've done it.

And I've eaten an entire pizza, but that doesn't mean my philosophy of eating generally so I don't become obese is invalid.

I think you got it backwards. Reddit not yanking subreddits is an exception that is only afforded to the largest and most visible subs.

Reddit absolutely loves to yank smaller subreddits from mods.

How would you know what Reddit as an organization likes to do?

Seems anthropomorphic to me...

There are legions of people who would be frothing at the mouth for the opportunity to be given mod on a popular subreddit.

Yeah and quite a large fraction of those should probably never be granted mod powers over even something as insignificant as a subreddit.

I don't disagree with you but the point is that is entirely within Reddit's discretion, not ours.

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