Because they were able to sneak in obfuscating mod names even though it’s easy as sh-t to get a moderator alt so you can’t even call out the one guy doing it and any blame on the whole moderation teams puts all of them on the defensive due to group psychology. Boy was the modlog and being transparent thrown out the window quickly, people go all ACAB on cops, but at least they all can still be uniquely identified by badge numbers. In Lemmy, not even that, so if ACAB, what does that make them? You at least used to be able to call out and track admins and mods who were clearly misbehaving, but that was too much accountability.