I think ultimately you’re arguing against something I’m not really arguing for. Again, any mod who thinks that this is some 100% purely altruistic endeavor is sniffing their own farts and is definitely an incredibly thin sliver of the modding population. If you want to keep boiling things down then you can ultimately reduce any active charity to some degree of selfishness and say that there is no truly altruistic action and therefore your final conclusion is “mods are ultimately selfish and putting up altruistic window dressing,” which as long as you can say “it’s never 100% selfless” means you can’t ever be wrong rhetorically. That’s a philosophy discussion, not a practical discussion of what motivates people to become moderators.