Correct! Those keys are gone!

For instance, you are an admin in your community. If you should get others to join as moderators and you decide to make one of them admin, you can only change the rolls with a key that is higher than the admin, and that will be the hive key.

Now if the hive keys were saved on a phone and the phone cannot be repaired, those keys are gone. This means that you will show up as an admin under "Leadership" forever.

That just shows how important it is to make sure keys are saved well and on more than one place.