You made up a code and are sticking to it. Go for it. My attitude is I bought the game, I don't owe the devs anything else. its not perfect. Would not be surprised at all to see some of the better mods incorporated into the game in some version in the future. There are modders who found the same short comings I did and were generous enough with their time to create and share a fix.
There are games that were designed to be unmoddable or extremely difficult. If the devs wanted that, put it in the game.