I made several magazines when I joined because I had heard horror stories of greedy and power hungry people claiming subreddit names and then sitting on them forever. That’s why MLB is baseball and Mets is NewYorkMets. I’m sure there’s countless other examples of the kind of megalomaniacal person we should avoid hoarding things like that.
But maybe it’s someone like me who is trying to make sure it’s gonna be ok. I would be cynical too, though.