@danderson It's even gotten to the point where there are in-game billboards for them!

I think Elite Dangerous is a neat case study in a lot of ways - in many respects the game itself is an MVP that's basically unplayable (or at least un-fun) trash without third party add-ons.

So the devs embrace it - it logs various things to JSON files in the game dir and any tool can read this. As long as it's not automation, all's fair, and the players have done some really neat stuff.