Console Players don't need Addons

[Shurrikhan]

Because its not cheating, no matter how much you want to pretend it is.

It's not as if it's botting or changing player parameters, no, but it does supply additional information to an extent essentially allows a player to bypass a sub-mechanic (that is, reading the cues of the mechanic).

Does it do anything wholly new? No. Can what it does for the player be replicated through default in-game capacities? Yes. But does it significantly allow for particular, non-redundant player interactions to be removed from a fight? Also yet.

This is still, of course, referring to certain extremes; it's not as if the system itself demands that it be used to provide that level of advantage.

That is the same reason, though, you see plug-in distributors police themselves, drawing a line between

1. what simply makes already existent capacities more accessible in ways that'd be technically and practically redundant for all but a subset of players who could particularly benefit from them (see: disability-aimed plugins) and
2. plugins that (can) present altogether new capacities or significantly allow players to bypass mechanics within the fights themselves (as opposed to just, say, hitting an equally fixed and singular progression of 1-2-3-4-5 instead of a single button for a single decision).

Sometimes a plugin is even removed from a distro just because it moved from that a plugin that "can" provide that further advantage to one that "does". Both those that can and those that do are still the rarities, practically outliers, but they do exist.