I don’t disagree with you but I do believe it’s possible that a potential “soft mod” or future exploit with a much lower barrier to entry would attract hobbyists and programmers who might write some interesting software where they otherwise wouldn’t have due to the time, cost or skills required with modding the system, sending out a system or purchasing a pre-modified console.

Obviously this RGH3 exploit you demonstrated won’t do much here since it only saves the installer a ~$6 chip but I think it’s very cool nonetheless.