Ree's modding got noticeably worse after the whole Ketkat and CP 2077 fiasco late last year. The mods have gotten far more paranoid and thin skinned after that. Any whiff of "insubordination" against the mods is swiftly dealt with, and the mods are even more ban happy than before at the slightest imagined infractions (that are ever changing and continues to be vague).
Knowing there are obsessed users like Ketkat and her crew coordinating in private Discords to engineer drama probably made B-Dubs go full "Zero Tolerance" on the Ree userbase.