Well it's hard to guess what the admins are planning. They said it would stay around for the foreseeable future but I agree their changes are becoming increasingly adversarial. (EDIT: Though new reddit has brought about a number of good improvements to the moderating experience. Sadly at this point the mod community had already implemented all of them and more via 3rd party browser extensions...)

Our community might have a slight old-reddit bias -- we have a core group that doesn't like change -- but I have a hard time believing it could have a terribly large effect once the numbers are in the millions.