As someone that modded a few fairly large subs I can tell you that the admins were very frequently in contact with power mods because they treat the faggots like foot soldiers. They would insert them into mod teams to watch "problematic" subs.
Maxwell repeatedly violated TOS from what I remember and was never close to banned.
Considering how Epstein treated every association as a mark to be conned and blackmailed it's highly likely that Reddit's shift from somewhat neutral into far left insanity was their influence. I wonder how many people are trafficked through reddit as well.
PS don't forget that they hired a self professed pedophile
At least we have LLMs to replace being able to find old forum posts. It's not ideal but they're a billion times better than having to put up with faggy moderators and smug power users telling you they're not here to do your homework.