No doubt but I find it strange there was no acknowledgment of their protest ending. They were very vocal and one of the biggest sub hold outs but now they just flipped the switch with no communication.

Mods could have forced reddits hand. If they had all striked and stopped modding at the same time. Leave it open, leave it up. But every single mod just walk away and watch reddit try desperately to backfill thousands of mod teams. But they played games instead cause they didn't want to lose power or thought their little subreddit was important.