C’mon man, don’t be too hard on the devs. They certainly care about their game and the community around it, but there must be a reason for this lack of mod availability. If they decompress the files, nice, but if they don’t right now, just don’t assume they don’t care about us. We don’t know about their workload, it’s only a small team.
As much as I agree with you about the importance of modding, we need to be patient.
By the way, Starsector is completely different from BB, but it is great in its own way, one of the few ship combat games I like, it has a kind of Mount & Blade feeling to it, but in space… amazing!