No, this is user error. It clearly strongly recommended you to print out your backup code when the MFA was enabled. If you forgot or ignored it and then wiped an important phone, that's on you.
Some context so we don't wade into misinformation territory here: in the earlier days any mod on a subreddit could add any other user as a mod, without their consent or knowledge.
There's plenty of true bad stuff to witch hunt that asshole for, let's not get ourselves dismissed for being gullible people who'll twist anything to fit our narrative.
I'm so glad there's an ocean between us for when the shooting starts... Not that the collapse of the US won't have enormous geopolitical ramifications, most of them bad.
Ironically brought to you by the same tech bros it's dissing.