Man this narrative frustrates me so much.
Mr "don't alter my games, just play the way I want you to" himself, who spends valuable development time setting traps to trigger "game over's" every new update, could never, in 5 years, stop me from playing 15 different paths/routes in the only save I have with multiple mods used. How could Ocean?
Makes no sense to scare new players away from a better experience because of something that will most likely not happen.
But that's just me. And I'm biased because I think the "clean" version is ass.