Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good View Post
tl;dr: making mod tools is hard, we'd much rather you buy DLC units. But we'll give you limited mod tools for games we don't expect to sell more DLC units for.
tl;dr;gca - too long, didn't read, gonna complain anyway.

The gratitude is underwhelming. While it may not be much to you, I'm sure there are some who will appreciate the release of the data files.