Most devs think that DLCs, usually minor and useless in terms of prolonging play time, are the way to keep interest. Of course thats bullshit but they wouldnt do it if there werent enough people who fall for this scam, which it is.This is one of the main pluses of the mods for any game that a lot of devs kinda seem to ignore. Mods can make the game live on oh-so-long. Moddable SP games can easily outlive even MP-only games - what to say about unmoddable SP ones. Original Rome Total War still lives. Morrowind still lives. Heck, Arcanum still lives.
CDPR doesn't need to do much, actually. No need for official mods support either. Just don't code your archives way too much and make sure the game would be happy to load any user-changed and added files - and voila. If the game would be successful, the modding community will appear out of itself.
CDPR on the other hand, even without mod tools, never held the modders back even tho they did give us 16 FREE DLC and 2 really amazing expansions, which were very generously priced, especially BaW. They didnt expect the game to be played today im sure, but theyre probably happy that people still do play it and that thx to mods.
Gotta give a nod to those who made XCOM 2 as well tho, open to modding from the beginning and even support for it. The first one is moddable on GOG too.
There are too few game devs who go: DRM free, modding allowed or supported and free or well priced DLC/Expansions.
Shoutout to Paradox who tend to give quality DLC content for their games and also allow modding so theyre quite close to CDPR. Only some DLC are questionable on why they even have a price but theyre ok.
To go back to Cyberpunk 2077, im sure CDPR will at least allow modding, so we got nothing to fear there, maybe we do get mod tools at some point after release or with it too which if course gives non pro modders a chance to mod the game.
I for example only edit game files, thats the minimal modding i do and it tends to suffice for my needs. Otherwise i download them but that got rare since nexusmods went signup2download.