I think I'm about as active here as I was on Reddit. Always was more of a reader.

The people wanting to step in usually aren't the content providers. They just want to ride the high of being "powerful" on an already succesful subreddit without doing any of the hard work to get and keep is succesful. So there is likely to be a massive crash-n-burn coming for all the subs that have their content providers leave (or forcefully removed)