What is worded exemption?

When the Games Director acting as company ambassador speaks about a certain subject and gives a statement on its existence and usage. This is an exemption.

ACT and its various plug ins were granted that exemption when Yoshida sat and spoke about the tool and its plug ins specifically and made a very clear statement on it.

Funnily enough some other mods were also addressed in this same other QA session, pertaining to screenshots and while it wasn't 100% clarity it was clear that as long as it's done not in a public server space (I.E Limsa) then it's not bothering anyone and not an Avenue the dev team will be pursuing.

This was all said by the Director, you can go watch the video yourselves and note the two spoken exemptions and their provisos.

So unfortunately Karen brigade, this is one fight you won't be winning any time soon.

ACT, it's plug ins and some photo modifications will be here to stay, the dev team will just not officially support them

But they do want you to stop trying to report people for it because it's just getting in the way of actually important reports that need handling.