Hey new to this forum and also to standalone but not towards gaming and modding in general,
Totally agree with everything @Yuval just mentioned..
I can understand that that alot of folk may see modding in a sense of it would bring so more crap with quantity over quality which is the case for so many modable games these days and probably always will be... because everyone has there own opinion and any content creator should always be proud of the work they put into there stuff (but also always take on constructive critz and strive for better)
But having the game moddable or a workshop wouldnt exactly mean everything made/modded would be added in game ovc, but then that itself brings up the scenario of how the devs take that into account.. maybe something like a dev/community voting system where content being added into the vanila game but then that also (Could) create another scinario of micro transactions ect.. (do folk want to go there)?.. or even keeping that for custom servers?...
from my own opinion, I feel any game that has modding support (and from a buisness perspective) always become popular and last longer for the simple fact that, folk love to create!.. and what better feeling for any modder to have there stuff hand picked by devs or loved by many to be added into the game hell may even open up opportunitys for modders (caugh...Player unknown..caugh)
with all that said.. the devs on standalone seem to have been making/showing alot more progress with the standalone game recently and from ground up (+ still in WIP) .. im looking foward to seeing progress and what will become..