You must lobby your modders not Iron Gate. This is Early Access, and they want to finish the game first prior to adding mod support to finished code. Adding official mod support now, will seriously slow down the development cycle as much much more testing will be required at every stage.
The tin-foil hat can be removed safely as this is all perfectly normal, modders will have to adapt and users have to wait.

There is also a mass of posts stating "the game will not launch" without stating how to replicate the process and any relevant information what-so-ever that will help the devs fix the problem quickly.

e.g.
Version no, server/solo/modlist/steps to recreate / issue start date
and so on. Help the devs to help you rather than spamming the boards and acting like Chicken Licken.