I’m not concerned here about the rules for how mods are added or removed, just the technical implementation. It’s easy enough to require a majority for decisions like that.

There has to be a way to establish with certainty that a user taking mod actions is actually a mod. The fact that you can revert changes in a git repo doesn’t make it ok for people to commit without permission, and mod actions are the same. Just allowing unauthorized users to perform mod actions would allow them to fuck up communities faster than the real mods could undo the damage.