Ben, all due respect for your work and with all due respect for all other scratch built mod creators, you can agree to disagree with me to the moon and back for what it's worth. It's your opinion, I have mine. Yours is not above, nor is mine. If Turn10 or any other game company having their content ripped to shreds and ported to X number of games would give as much as half a damn about that, they would've probably sent their lawyers hunting down A LOT of pay sites that have been active for YEARS now, in the open. Starting with Forza 1. The fact that they don't should at least make you, a scratch built modder, chill a bit. You do this from YOUR passion. Why is it that you give a bigger damn than Turn10 about their content? You on their payroll, by any chance? Or maybe it's because you see your work more worthy of praise and respect than a ripper's? True or not, i don't give a quarter of a damn. It's your right to think whatever you want. I just want to drive my favourite cars in AC and I'll help whoever is working on a car that's dear to me, whether that's you, Mac Ten or whoever. Truth be told, I'm not quite keen anymore to even give feedback to some "established" scratch built modders only to have the "that's that, it's scratchbuilt, sucka" or "my calculations are perfect" answer thrown my way like a used kleenex. Some of said devs really need to come back to earth feet first (or head first, if it helps), and you know who you are without me having to point, kindergarten style. Who has been following development around RD for a while knows you too.
The fact that I or any other member of this forum enjoy good quality modding regardless of source doesn't have to be certified by you or any other member here. The fact that I will gladly help with your work with the same joy i do Mac Ten's or whoever else's doesn't either.
Do your thing, and let others do theirs. You don't have to agree. You're neither above nor below anyone else. And if your or whoever else's choice is to stop modding, go to their room and hit a pillow or simply the ignore button following this here, that says something about you in the first place. Not about the oh so wicked world.