I checked https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ and I see a lot of subs that opened at exactly the same time as r/mildlyinteresting. Some of them appear to still have mods but others, like r/self, don't show any mods, at least on the official app. As far as I can tell, all of the subs that opened at that time were set to NSFW
Mods don't typically give 2 shits about what users want either. I don't support what reddit is doing, thing is I don't support much of what reddit has done for the past 7-8 years. You guys are just now catching on that reddit has ceased to be a viable platform even though in reality its death happened long ago. A big part of the problem is overzealous and power hungry mods, especially in the bigger subs. So yeah, I don't support reddit, but I really couldn't care less about how the mods perceive themselves to be mistreated either. Basically they are getting just a tiny taste of the treatment they've given the average user for years and suddenly just right they FINALLY see it as a problem. Cry me a river. You reap what you sow.
Couldn't agree with you more. So many shitty mods on Reddit, with no way to do anything about it. Reddit sucks, but I don't feel bad for the mods one bit.