As I posted in another thread, anyone who has modded knows that the best part of the time goes in loading & reloading the game to test the changes, as well as the effects of research modifications you do.
Do you have an idea what it might mean for a modder to have to wait EACH TIME until the friggin server checks that he is not a pirate and allows the game to load? Those familiar with ROF, with similar online protection, know that load times that could be very quick are ethernal due to the damned protection system. So I bet this will discourage most modders to work with SH5, unless they have resolved to expend their entire lives on that ...
And what game do you think is best? SH4 stock or SH3 modded with f.e. GWX? You bet the answer is clear, and so will it be for SH5 ... a modded SH4 or even SH3 predecessor will probably kick its butt by far. And because modding SH5 will be a nightmare due to the DRM, then it will never take off really, unlike what happened with SH3/4