The struggle of Addons, is very real.

[Risvertasashi]

And? Things can change. -snip-

I never said that they can't change. My point has been that it has changed.

But to your second point, 5 chan and 4 chan have been blowing up - though more in support of witch hunting and whatnot. And they've previously used edited screenshots and so on to try to get unpopular figures (as seen by their community) banned. It's also been a very popular discussion on reddit today. Can't really say about how other language communities feel though, other than 5 chan... well, being 5 chan.

The JP community has been very vocal too, so this is false. It was a JP streamer that got banned, so that has likely played some part in it.

Yeah, what kicked this off was basically the start of a culture war. "You got our guy banned? We'll get your guy banned!" Though at this point it seems to be trying to get any streamer they can. Regardless of one's view of addons, I wouldn't exactly call this a healthy state of the community right now...

Huh... Can't say I knew this particular detail but on the other hand... What else could they have done to NOT leave that point of ToS a dead paragraph? If they didn't include technical solution to confirm or deny your usage of plugins (as they don't instal spyware on your PC) and don't take outside proofs... They'd be effectively blinded with no ability to enforce rheir rules... And that's not a spot you want to be.

Yes, this is basically the position SE has been in in the game up to this point. That's why streamers and tubers have freely displayed their parse windows and/or other mods for so many years.

They are still blind to non-content creators that use all the mods/addons/etc they like and don't talk about it where SE can see.