“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators[…]. If […] at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”
Seems like something that a scumball could reconcile easily enough; “we’re not overruling mods or forcing a subreddit back open. We’re just removing voluntarily inactive mods, and if whoever happens to step in after we do that wants to reopen the subreddit then that’s entirely their decision.”