At some point, they will abandon this game, including not hosting any servers, if there's no profit to be made.You are saying that if they can make money buy selling mods that others made, i e essentially making money for doing nothing but hosting servers, then why the **** would they do anything more?
You are saying if they abandon this game then it is better to give them money for it? dude you are literally insane.
If a regular income could justify server costs plus a small team to make QOL adjustments and fixes, I'd be happy with that.