Plugins and Products [How will it affect future modder input]

[nitro]

Im not sure wether this point has allready been made, but first having been around vb for sometime do not get me wrong. Although iv not yet took much of a serious look at product code etc the feature and method is indeed an improvement and makes modifying much easier, for those who have allready played anyway. Yes I love the new hook system, when I need to Im sure I will be able to grasp it relatively quickly for small projects at least.

But is there a downside?

I rememeber one of the first mods I installed a long time ago called the gallagher hack, and this was before I had even gained much in the way of html knowledge, however I found that while dropping the php code edits in what I was looking at was in some respects relatively understandable. And its that, that inspired me to look at other mods, and even some that would do but needed tweaks to do what I personally wanted. Now many will have to agree thats how most vb modders start. Many of those modders from sometime ago have moved on. Of course theres still plenty around at the moment. but now many new users are just going to click install and generally not even bother to look at the code.

So im just wondering how many think the benefit of plugin/products outway the potential downside I see. Of course I dont personally want the new system dropped, so I just hope it will remain a happy modfest for many years to come.

Really I want to see positive replies like "what a load of hogwash nothing will stop vb modding"