Do you have any examples of welding the differential? I'm still finding the idea hard to parse - Minecraft is the ur-example of early access blowing up to stupidly popular heights while infested with mods despite the developer's best efforts with code obfuscation.

That modding ecosystem helped boost it to a literal billion dollar buyout value while spinning off dozens of streamer and indie dev careers, a third party support industry and a whole new genre of factory building games. Everybody wins, nobody loses.