Said it before but if they're not going to allow addons, which is fine, then I hope they take the modding community as a peaceful throw down the gauntlet showdown- and actively look into ideas that can maybe work in the base game. For example addon that tells you high chance success moves to win would likely never get added, not that it bothers me people use it for NPC content lol.. but it just wouldn't make sense for SE to add (except maybe to offer players a difficulty slider, like MSQ content). Meanwhile there are many other addons that aren't like that, which I wish they go "oh wow, lots of people wanted that feature? Alright, let's see if we can do it, and do it better?".

There are other reasons for SE to have to be aware of them too, like we do in fact have what is essentially Deadly Boss Mod (DBM) in FFXIV or like the hunt one - which makes them easier to be evaporated and harder to participate if you're not using the addon.

Besides some really egregious mods their existence doesn't really bother me, I read about some and I was like wow- you know your game is 'making it' when people are putting in thousands of hours of volunteer work lol, but I think knowledge is a powerful tool and these addons might be informative for SE as well as allow SE to level / improve the playing field for console and non-console gamers.