@Pikalek It depends, as opposed to what I did before I became a mod, or "how much time do I spend on gdse"?

I would say the time I spend here has not increased because I became a moderator. I probably spend as much time as before, but the focus has changed. I used to spend time trying to answer the questions and process the review queues, edit stuff related to fixing tags and such (improvements based on Meta discussions). Now I do more stuff that only mods can do, and less stuff that non-mod users can do.

(e.g. if I vote to close a question, it's closed right away, so I don't spend time reviewing the close votes queue because my votes are so "damaging"). AFK life has also changed since before I became a mod and that has an influence of what I do now.

I think I've been spending more time on GDSE the past year moreso as a function of the pandemic - overcoming boredom/isolation - rather than being typical of the moderation workload.

The volume of work that actively requires moderator intervention on this site has been mercifully low. Every once in a long while we'll get a determined vandal who needs all-hands-on-deck attention, but fortunately most spam/abuse is already well filtered by the community and automated scripts.

My biggest time investment is in chat and in commenting on questions to suggest improvements, but neither of those is solely a moderator duty.

My main interest in having more mods is in coverage - to know that when I'm not free to check for flags or scan the feed for half a day, someone else will probably visit in that time (and ping for help if they need it).

Usually a 15-minute review of the top of the question feed (checking for bad questions / bumps due to non-answers) and a check for flags while I'm still waking up in the morning covers most of the real modding work I do in a day.

I guess the other time sink we get is when a legitimate question is posted on a controversial topic, or one very prone to attracting non-expert opinions, and hits the Hot Network Questions feed. Then I try to keep an eye on it periodically to prune runaway chats, filter answers, and apply restrictions if needed.

That's usually only a once a month kind of event, or less, but it's unpredictable so it's one of those things having more hands to watch for could be good, so the current crew doesn't have to be vigilant all the time. ;)

A difference for me between being a non-mod and a mod is that sometimes there are actions that need to be taken "ASAP". No damage is really permanently done, in general, but sometimes we get a user that gets upset and start trolling and spamming and such, recreating accounts after suspension, etc. Those need to be taken care as they happen, if possible. This is a "real time" aspect of the job that I did not have before. Those don't happen too often, fortunately.