Bit of both wouldn’t hurt. In any case they can end this protest the same way they ended the permanently closed subs protest, by just removing the mods and appointing new ones. The gambit here is it’ll be hard to find people willing to continue to work for free and I hope that proves true, but they succeeded once, for years and people are attracted to being involved with something with such a large following. One might hope also that even if they find scabs (can you call them that if you’re not actually paid?) that those scabs will reach the same conclusion and revolt as well but then again it sounds like in 2015 they were already at the end of their tether and yet it took until 2023 to finally only partially spit the dummy so if you can get 10 plus years of free used labour out of volunteers before they get so sick of your shit that you have to find news ones then you’re doing pretty well and can probably just rinse and repeat.