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Admins generally reserve stepping in for situations where mods aren't enforcing site rules, encouraging or committing rule breaking/brigading, or have just gone and deleted the entire subreddit.
For cases like this where the community simply disagrees with the mods who made the subreddit in the first place usually their answer it's the mod's subreddit and if community members don't like what the subreddit is about then members can just go make a new subreddit and go there.
Comment by Swansborough at 26/01/2022 at 23:55 UTC
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Not exactly right. Admins step in to large subreddits and take action when the mods are working against the wishes of the members of the community.
For example, when No Man's Sky launched, there was a problem with the mods, and Reddit staff stepped in, removed the mods and brought in an experienced mod to run and assist the subreddit.
What you say is against what Reddit staff did. /r/antiwork is big enough that the admins would help keep the community and bring in new mods.