Mods were OP. They were making gear and even levels and stars too unimportant. That was a well-deserved nerf, and people should have been grateful for it. It made the game much, much better than the initial mods release would have been if it had continued. I know a lot of people who quit over mods, but I also know a lot who were about to quit and then changed their minds because of that nerf. And those who changed their minds were objectively right, in terms of the relative balance of mods, gear, stars, levels, etc. The nerf restored balance to the Force. It just did so in a way that Yoda and Qui-Gon couldn't foresee. It had to fall to the dark side for a couple decades before killing the emperor and restoring balance.
