I think they would still allow community moderators for individual subreddit rules, just hire more people to enforce the site-wide rules and let the community mods focus on fostering their own communities. This is the ideal of course and Reddit is, well, Reddit so you might be correct.

I don’t think you just type a name and set it to go. Someone is remotely piloting that drone.

This is probably super localised but Kinloch Rannoch in Perthshire, Scotland.