[pjc50]

There's at least four different cases which are being conflated:

- genuinely third party software, e.g. the short lived Playstation Linux => "good"

- modified software (usually "bad" but we can find non-bad cases)

- piracy. "Private servers" probably count under this

- preservation (unfortunately indistinguishable from piracy, but covers what happens when required online services shut down)

[kube-system]

Yes, but console makers don't really get to choose how, or with what intent, downstream users will modify devices if given a window to do so.