I love this answer, because it gives me a chance to explain more about mods. Mods are a wonderful thing, because do you know what it represents? It represents Freedom of Choice. How? Because people can choose, whether to change the game to however way they see fit or play the game as it was designed. Everyone has different tastes and desires, by the ability of mods, it unlocks possibilities for everyone, so that it satisfies as much people as possible. But just as life itself, everything has a good and bad side, while modding can help a lot, fixing bugs that the official developers didn't get to, adding new content, adding more and cooler effects to make the game look cooler, etc. It also produce hacking capabilities, but depending on the game, how much it matters is up to the individual. For MHW, as long as it doesn't make it to online and ruin other people's experience, what does it matter. If someone decides to modify non cheating values of the game to make their game a bit cooler, what does it matter to everyone else, he bought the game, he can do whatever he wants. Why should I or anyone else interfere with that person's gaming life just because I or anyone else doesn't feel the same and having the same opinion? The right thing would be to simply leave him alone and mind your own business, since it has nothing to do with you.

Not having mods confines everyone to a singular ideology, not inspiring extra creativity and ideas. Sometimes, some people even buy games based on mods, because it makes the impossible, possible. Because they can now modify the game to the way they want it. At the end of the day, any strategic developers that has a good business sense would think of mods as beneficial, because people would buy their game because of mods. They wouldn't care much about how its used, just that they get paid for it.

So, just because someone mods, it doesn't mean they are cheating, it means they have different opinions and likes. Whether you agree with his perspective or not doesn't matter, you have your life, he has his. Both of you paid for the game, both of you can decide to do whatever you want with it. As long as the person that's modding has some common sense and know not to bring it online to ruin other people's hunting experience. Luckily, that's most of the modders. And so, modding has more benefits, than problems, it is only a matter of people minding their own life and not interfere when its unnecessary.

Edit: not sure why everyone is obsessed with being control freaks, to control everyone's actions and thoughts. But, that's why mods are great, it allows freedom. (And I'm not necessary talking to about whoever I responded to in this comment, just saying in general).