One bad act will undo years of good will, we see this constantly irl. Why do you think the mods deserve any benefit of the doubt from people when they unilaterally chose to make a bad decision with no input from the community? If the community can't trust them to act in their best interests, they're absolutely well within their rights to demand they step down or move to the replacement community. Because of they're going to do this once, what are the odds they actually learn the correct lesson and don't do this kind of shit again?