Yes they're safely not a fed.

I think the next steps that will be taken will be to continuously try to push the buttons of this mod until they emotionally break. They probably never expected it to become this when they started out.

Once the top mod is out of the way via quitting for emotional/health reasons the infighting can ramp up and picking apart the hierarchy by bad actors can occur. They can systematically generate drama that damages the sub and team and pick apart any momentum that the movement had.

They are 100% in the crosshairs of the right, hedgefunds and the state. Infiltration will play out alongside other methods of attack and they have no idea what they're dealing with. The emotionally vulnerable human element of this situation is the easiest part to attack.

I'm certain that if this top mod steps down it'll be a disaster, regardless of their naivity or obvious lack of experience organising, they absolutely must stay in that position on the modlist and everything must be done to encourage them not to quit it.

If I were in this team I'd be calling for a very serious internal purge as well. The modlist needs reverting all the way back to at least before jack-the-rah was added, probably further. They also need to stop all moderation additions and do them via headhunting of trustworthy figures instead, with trust as the primary factor in recruitment.

I honestly think they are well past the point of no return though. All the fixes that are necessary would also drive so much drama that would kill it anyway.