Quote Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder View Post
I’d like to say that add-on users are a small minority; but while reason suggests they are a minority (I’d be surprised if half of the PC players use them, reducing the most that could be to 25%) reason does not suggest how large or small that minorty may be.
Based on the downloads numbers of all these third party programs, we'll looking at well over 300,000 players using at least one of them. While a minority, it's hardly small considering the active character numbers (not actual players) was estimated to be 1.7M as of 6.1.

You are vastly underestimating the impact if even a small fraction of those players quit the game if every single third party tool was somehow banned. At just 20% of the aforementioned 300k, SE is looking at a near 10M loss, annually.