And even if it was that would not mean much seeing how their promises are apparently worthless. They explicitly promised mod support for The Witcher 3 that would enable the creation of new adventures but what they ended up releasing did not provide that.
I really wonder why they changed their stance on modding so much. Do they not understand the value this adds to their game? Vanilla Bethesda games for example are borderline unplayable at times but get an immense boost by their modding communities. Is there some nefarious business calculation that I am unaware of that would lead them to the adoption of this anti-consumer stance?
This is particularly bizarre when you consider that, looking at their job listings, they require their prospective hires to showcase their work on software like The Witcher 2’s (released nine! years ago) RED Kit and other games’ mod tools. I can think of several modders from this very community off the top of my head that CDPR hired in the past. Why they wouldn’t want to allow their potential new talent to be able to familiarize themselves with their current dev tools is even more beyond me.
i think they understand the value of modding, but it's not in their scope. as a game becomes more advanced, the modding possibilities lessen. it's because it requires a lot more time, resource, and skill that non professionals would not be able to muster.
the besthesda game mods are nothing but glorified model replacements, i do think cdpr could look into developing mod tools towards that end, but i think the type of games is so different, there's not much interest.
from what i remember, witcher 2 and 3 both eventually had that capability, but no one really capitalized upon that. also i think you'll agree the quality levels of the models in bestheda games varies between good enough to utter dogturd, so i think with cdpr games again there's not that innate motivation to want to improve anything. so the modding goes towards another direction, ie tworwards gamepaly tweaking, stat tweaking, etc. rather than major visual overhauls