Don't rejoice yet, boiz.
We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating. We think this made us miss the mark pretty badly, even though we believe there's a useful feature somewhere here.
They'll try and pull something similar with mods on another game, hopefully not another paywall, but it's possible, nothing stops Valve other than not getting a buck.