User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017/@comment-24258073-20170629232848/@comment-5275700-20170630210019

I really have to debate this point, that "there's a huge difference between a chat moderator that needs to be kicked, and a chat moderator that needs to lose their powers".

A chat moderator has been entrusted with the responsibility of moderating the chat. If they are doing something that warrants being kicked out of the chat, that seems pretty serious. Having their rights removed and/or being blocked, even temporarily, seems like a totally reasonable consequence. The stakes need to be somewhat high if you want to have the behavior to improve, otherwise it won't. And if the behavior doesn't improve, then the user clearly should not be a chat moderator.

A chat moderator "going rogue" is a problem with that specific person, not something you should rely on a feature to solve.