They will lose a lot of advertisers if they go all NSFW. That's exactly why Tumblr got rid of porn.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that reddit wants to go public and have been working toward an IPO. If all of their power users, mods, and advertisers leave, it could very easily ruin that IPO for them.
Even if the IPO is successful, I doubt spez will be in charge much longer. I imagine he knows this and is probably trying to maximize the value before he gets the boot so he can get that sweet sweet golden parachute.
Nah, this isn't the time for malicious compliance. They couldn't care less if you say "fuck spez" a bunch of times in your mod messages.
This is the time for calling their bluff and making them forcibly remove and replace you. If enough mods of enough subs did this, they'd have a really hard time finding replacements for all of them. Especially unpaid replacements. Let them find out how much they took the free labor for granted. See if he thinks they're "landed gentry" when they stop doing the admin's job for free.
Reddit requires premium for changing themes and even the browser theme seems to be ignored in favour of light mode. Imagine if kbin/lemmy did that for free? (kbin.social)
Also Kbin does not ignore my darkmode settings.
Look at this bootlicking BS (media.kbin.social)
Deleted my 12 year old, 43334 Karma, reddit account (kbin.social)
I feel free !...
After criticizing the reddit admins I find all my posts and comments stuck in the mod queue forever, on any sub. even though I have thousands of karma on the account. anyone else? (media.kbin.social)