It looks like the article itself is being a bit misleading; the actual statement doesn’t mention submods at all, but re-uploads of the original mod. Digging a bit further, it seems like the author is updating the mod to work on the game’s most recent patch, and while he is doing that a bunch of people have used AI to update the mod to that patch and uploaded it wholesale as if it were their own work
It looks like the article itself is being a bit misleading; the actual statement doesn’t mention submods at all, but re-uploads of the original mod. Digging a bit further, it seems like the author is updating the mod to work on the game’s most recent patch, and while he is doing that a bunch of people have used AI to update the mod to that patch and uploaded it wholesale as if it were their own work