Admins also strong armed mods/subs to enforce community guidelines and TOS that was clearly agenda driven
Hopefully it's moderated much less. Don't see how it wouldn't be since it would probably take more effort. The excessive, special interest driven moderation is what really killed reddit long before this api issue.
One of the worst parts of this campaign of controlling hate speech, deplatforming, censorship etc. is that we lose out on some great internet flame wars. Let the freaks fight it out online. Why won't they let me exist as a connoisseur of internet rage??