I 100% see your point & I agree it’s not right for some people to access info and share it (or not) with a select few.
That being said, if the devs don’t want people to create mods, then they are sending mixed messages. They made an entire channel on discord dedicated to mods/modding, and this entire thread About the Modding category
The only way you can create a mod is to do a little digging, discovery, etc. (I know I’m not telling you anything new). For now, everything looks gray/white to me 
…I don’t see any black. I’m not monitoring the servers though - I’m sure they have someone looking at all of that and they couldn’t/wouldn’t tell us if they did catch/stop something malicious. Almost no studio would.