You certainly have a point there and to be honest I'm not at all keen on modding at this stage myself but on the other hand, it's hard to keep from trying to fix things that really needs fixing and isn't likely to be a priority.
Many were offended when the panellines and weathering were locked with the motivation that there were lots of bad skins coming out for IL-2 1946 as clearly there were lots of skins that were better than the originals. In other words I'm not too worried about someone finding it rude trying to fix up some skins that have some very weird and unrealistic features.
Still, I'll propably site nicely and wait as I don't have the time for trial and error. We'll just have to wait and see.