I don't have any issues with the mods myself. I have always found them to be responsive and easy to get ahold of. I have interacted with all of them at one time or another. As for the weekly threads.. well, quite simply, those tend to take some work and if the mods agreed to every request for them, there would be nothing but weekly threads autoposted to the sub.

Let's not forget, this is Reddit, if you don't like the content, you are free to submit and change it. I actually like some of the threads for the questions and such, but I don't see them getting upvoted very high, so I think that is better left to community members rather than the mods. That being said, I appreciate the effort that goes into them and would encourage people to put in similar work if they want the same. So far, the ones who have been willing to put in the work have been far and few between. So it ends up in being a request for mods to have to put in a lot of effort on their behalf.

Anyhow, to address specific points:

Mods inactive for more than 2 months should be relieved of their position, Source[8] while yes this is more of an interpretation of the rules, I feel it is a good guide line to keep mods that are active.

Myself, I haven't had an issue with this and see the mods fairly regularly post. Now the question is, do we want the mods to be at arm's length or do we want them to be mixing it up with the users and possibly causing drama even worse than this? Or do we want a mix. There are no good answers. Myself, I think the reputation of the sub as being one of the nicest places on Reddit has a great deal to do with that arm's length attitude they have taken.

There have been accusations of the mods not responding to mod mail. While this cannot be proven by me, this is something that would be important to address as this is our only means of communication to the mods.

Really not experienced this. Everything I have ever sent to mod mail has been addressed quickly and has most certainly been responded to.

Some mods may be negatively responding to critique about them.

And? They are still redditors. They are still allowed to get into it and they aren't expected to sit there quietly while someone slags them off. I would have MUCH more of an issue if people were being banned or whatever due to getting into an argument with a mod (Something that happens on Reddit with distressing regularity) but mods firing back.. human nature.

Anyhow, this all seems pretty minor. I don't have an issue with the way the sub is being moderated myself. We do likely need more mods, but don't forget, being a mod isn't all happy happy fun times. In fact.. it isn't much fun at all. It is work and you have to deal with some of the most petty BS you can imagine. I really appreciate our mods.