Four fucking wheels?

Don't think there's been any announcement about the impact to modding from the LH expansion.  Not that I've seen so far.

While FE shipped with the ability to add more content, it's slipping in modifiability compared to some other games. I've started modding another game and it really puts in perspective the shortcomings of FE modding. Object sanity. In-game mod manager. Scripting. Interaction with UI.

Other areas go basically un-used because they are grossly un-polished. Map maker. Scenario creation. Tile editor. Personally I'm tired of waving the flag to wait 6 months for a tiny fix to a corner of it all. Stardock keep saying they'll dedicate time to mod support but it's not happening and that's the reality.

Natural Selection 2, but I'm also playing around with some Don't Starve (almost the entire game is executed from moddable LUA files).

I have started a bunch of mods I have had to abandon because there are so many hidden little limitations. LH looks like a solid improvement and makes me want to play the game. I doubt however I will be modding it much beyond updating existing mods. I know Stardock is busy but still mod support has been none existent and we have no documentation whatsoever.

For instance they add support for adding user created campaigns but don't bother to actually explain how to do it. Not to mention there are some extremely puzzling limitations on it. Why bother to make it possible in the first place?

What's most irksome and irresponsible of SD is that they have claimed that their game is mod-friendly when in reality it is not. 

We haven't seen the modding community grow at all since FE came out. In particular the lack of map and stamp mods is very telling. The most  obvious reason for this is the map editor is almost impossible to learn to use and has dozens of weird glitches. Such basic forms of modding shouldn't require you to jump through so many hoops.

It's a shame such awesome tools like the particle forge get wasted. I would like to use it but having to figure it out from scratch would take too much time, and be too frustrating.

It's friendly enough when it comes to the *real* simple stuff, such as adding an item.  But yeah, it gets a bit frustrating once you get into more complicated stuff.... and as per your OP the inconsistencies are one of the major frustrations.  Not being able to change anything to do with tech trees from the mod folder is a good example.

Agreed particle forge is great.  I found it's probably the least frustrating of the supplied tools.

There's just very little (almost none) flexibility. We can change values and the face of things, but if you want something to work DIFFERENTLY then 99% of the cases it won't work. For me, modding FE is about thinking what can be done before I even think about what I'd like to do. If it were flexible, I would be thinking what I'd like to do and then how to do it.

It seems to me the modding community was much more vibrant with WoM (for a while) than it has been with FE.  Sad.

True, true...one could make a bad turn-based rpg.

But could you do it all from the mods folder?

This is the general impression I got when I saw that moddability in FE consists of modifying a bunch of XML values. Obviously, this will not scale.

But I hope Stardock eventually gets around to exposing their core game engine API to at least one scripting language (which they should use to write their own game code anyway for a host of beneficial reasons).

Miss having you around.  You really added a lot to the WoM modding culture.  Hopefully we can get SD to actually care about the modability of the game at some point.