No, I think they're just incompetent. So many errors in text, flags or scenes in general with the latest updates. I doubt they have the skill to deliberately make the code a mess and get it to work.That's why the code is such a confusing and ever-changing mess is to prevent mods I'm sure. If you can add any story you want why pay the devs?
I'm sure Savin finds some relief that it's difficult to mod, but I don't think it's the reason for these shenanigans.