Because they were from reverse engineering technniques. So yes, on d2 mods were cheats, like bots and hacks were. Which constitutes them as cheats by making unathorized modifications on game code.
Just because often mods wouldn’t go too far, doesn’t mean their technniques were different from hacks, bots and cheats.
Just the act of data mining, replace and modify if you didn’t had authorization or were given by the developer the tools to work on the software, is an atempt of reverse engineer their software which constitutes also their code. “ Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through the application of which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.” When you get a unintended data from the game you’re reverse engineering it: If you data mining u’re illegally using game data in your own discretion, which implies on reverse engineering the code. Reverse engineering is only required when you try to change hardcoded mechanics. Not necessarily, simply datamining and modifying/replacing files is probably the simplest way to mod games, you can do quite a bit with just editing the txt files in D2 for instance.
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