[correct_horse]

I think the Minecraft mod scene happened because java is easier to deobfuscate than C++. JVM bytecode doesn't have as many opcodes as x86_64 and JVM bytecode's opcodes are on average simpler. I suspect that modding a new unobfuscated game written in C++ that contains debugging symbols would be far easier than modding Minecraft was before obfuscation maps were available. But games rarely ship like this, since they would be easy to pirate.