There was a proposal to have all the admins coordinate, but it was shot down for the reasons I mentioned. Without that network it's difficult to form a secret society.

There is nothing of the sort for default mods. I'm wary of default subs too, but as it stands almost all of those mods have been admins for a long time and probably created those subs.

I don't want to see any special features or tools dished out to certain specific users or moderators. It is impossible for that not to turn into a favoritism contest. You can never fully elminate it, but I think it's been managed okay so far. It can't become a regular thing or corruption will escalate. The admins are all either founders or volunteers from a time when help was needed, it wasn't determined by membership in a certain clique of users. Also no admins except the owner can do basically anything except moderate spam, and occasionally deal with blatant rule violations. No banning subs either.