I would totally agree. So many of them just seem to be on a power trip and moderate based on their mood. Its sad because its really killed reddit for a lot of people.
So eventually mods kill comments not because they particularly dislike them but because they can't be bothered with dealing with the inevitable shit to come.
And also some mods think it's their job to delete stuff that was self-moderated by downvotes anyway which is just silly in the first place.
But if that happened, powermods wouldn't be a thing.
>The people who do it don't have to care about your free speech
No, but I don't have to care about the bog swamp of discourse you moderate just because "we have 1 million subs". Well great, everyone is angry and nuance is talked down. I don't want that to be the place.
But if keeping your mod power is more important than, well, moderating your community, you reap what you sow.