Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
Perhaps. But Pyromancer's conduct is more of a Pyromancer issue than a 'mods in general' issue. He's holding an opinion and defending it rather venomously - that's separate than the topic itself - though it is indicative of the overall mood to draw distinctions between mods that enhance an individual's experience and mods that give a factual advantage to progression content.

Both groups defend that some of these features should be in the game to begin with, and it looks like Yoshida was forced to acknowledge that potential for the first time in his last post. However I'm of mixed feelings as to what should be implemented and what should be flatly enforced away from streamers.

Pyromancer's conduct was terrible, but I don't wholly disagree with the arguments. Cosmetics are benign. My only issue is that they're not in the game in the first place, and the risk that people put on themselves to enhance their experience when implementation of these features would likely not be complex at all. Especially if a layman can implement them.
The issue with "cosmetics are benign" is it's literally a personal user discretion to what extent you are taking it beyond cosmetics. It's literally a few clicks to implement things that I'm sure you would agree are bad when you're already using the platform that enables you to do so. It's not really a gray area honestly, openly using the launchers that enable that and several modifications especially with the context of "this is technically okay" is just impossible for it to be the actual reasonable middle ground, because it changes nothing about the situation

You realize he had to remove a bunch of things recently because of this, he only has cosmetics now, but he had several other things before yesterday, that he openly said he removed YESTERDAY. He used to have markers before they changed that, he also up until yesterday had party debuff countdowns. He was very recently using more than just cosmetic, and now pretending he's taking a hard stance on only cosmetics. It's a bad faith argument from a bad place and regardless of how much good there is with QOL stuff being implemented, this is not something that should be supported or acted like is "simply their opinion". None of this is new.