I’m not a mod of anything, but your comment kinda upsets me in how you think.

Being a mod is unpaid slave work which can be gruelling. If a mod gets burnt out and has just had enough, they can leave whenever they want and “take their moderation with them.”

Their time was not compensated for, they are doing it for the passion they have/had for their community. If that is now gone because of whatever accumulation of stress, then that’s 100% fine.

Would you think any different if they removed themselves and everyone else as moderators, leaving it purposely unmoderated?

That’s very obviously a completely different thing. They’re free to leave… obviously removing others forcefully is not good… but that isn’t happening here.

Seems like taking something away to me.

This just makes you sound like a child, no offence, this person on the internet doesn’t owe anyone anything. If they want to stop modding, they can at any time.