Choose your preference:
A moderator who loses interest in moderation, upon reflection of their position, decides to step down, but later regains their taste for mod work and is reappointed. This happens several times as their whims fluctuate.
A moderator who loses interest in moderation, upon reflection of their position, decides to hold their position and do enough work throughout their time in power to avoid losing the position, which arguably gives them no room to reinvoke any desire to work properly again.