The truly crazy part about this whole debate is that it was touched off because mDiyo added some recipes to make sure that 1 wood = 4 planks.. The GT community totally blows up because they view this as somehow "exploiting" GT. It's wild because Greg goes this to other mods far more invasively all the time. All the time. So Greg responds with a crash. It's utterly outrageous, and no one should expect to get away with it. The community blows up when a modder deliberately crashes when he sees something he doesn't like. CovertJaguar got just as much crap and his motivations were at least far more reasonable when he did the code signing checks in 1.4.7.
Meanwhile his fanbase basically tries to use shaming tactics to support the recent tactics and changes. "Maybe if you weren't such a bad/ignorant/awful/FTB player you'd see how great this all is." Which is frustrating because it implies a whole bunch of stuff, but also because it's a genetic fallacy designed to put you on the defensive and divert you from the actual discussion: should Greg be crashing when he can't get his way. Given that he actually forces himself on modders in many other ways and they begrudgingly tolerate it, it seems pretty outrageous to play this game.
GT is certainly out of my modpack. I can't trust this guy.