Best part of a new patch? Third party tools not working.

[Packetdancer]

Square knows however the potential loss of players if Plugins are completely denied by making something that detects Plugins. It's best for Square to update and improve the game that makes a lot of the plugins unnecessary by default.

I don't write mods for FFXIV for a variety of reasons (save general-purpose game-agnostic shaders that have been folded into GShade)... but for games where I have been a mod author, I have usually said that my "victory condition" for a given mod is "the devs realize this is useful enough / improves things enough that they fold the feature into the game and I no longer have to maintain it."

I would not be shocked if many of the FFXIV mod authors had that same mindset.