The quote I come back to repeatedly is "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" as it perfectly describes the Moderator Pro

The quote I come back to repeatedly is "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy" as it perfectly describes the Moderator Problem. There are people who ask questions. You need questions but questions come with an audience. You can argue a well-crafted question is better than a bad one but it's not really an issue. The site only has value if the answers are there and they're good. This is the real value of answerers. In my mind, moderators are the janitors. Yes, that job is important. You need to clean up tags, fix misspellings or bad grammar, remove low value questions and answers but the scope really is pretty limited. But there is a certain personality type that gets attracted to moderation that, if left unchecked, is completely toxic. Instead of cleaning up answers they decide to set policy. "Subjective" questions were one of the first big targets. It requires constant vigilance for the moderators not to get completely out of hand. Wikipedia is a really great exmaple of this. Toxic moderators love solving imaginary problems. The argument for closing "subjective" questions was they didn't want it to descend into a flamewar. Thing is, that never happened. And if it did, you just delete the relevant comments and answers. There is absolutely no need for a site-wide ban on "subjective" questions. It's a complete non-problem.