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I agree that closing down Addon development is counter-productive. It is in the TOS, however, and pursuing extraction of the .dat files could open you up to some sort of reprisal by Zenimax. Will they? Probably not. Could they? Yes.
Ideally they'd compile the documentation in some sort of Javadoc-style documentation and release that (instead of a list of functions) for the API. I mean, it takes all to 15 seconds in Google to find one exists (LuaDoc) and in a business-compatible license. I'd expect any SDE could get it setup and running in a couple hours and then for each release it'd only take probably 1 minute to re-run the script and update it -- less if they get it built-in as a target for the build/make script.
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