Can the baton be passed to the community now?

[Flanker15]

Haven't been here for a while but I saw the news that the beta for the last clod patch is out and the devs are moving onto to hopefully greener pastures for the next title. The picture I'm getting is that the code base was never good enough for the game to get the attention it deserved so it's all being redone for a fresh start with bom.
I'm wondering if there's a possibility for the community to start doing modding of the clod code to give it the chance to be fixed. Sim fans have historically been a great source of free dev work. I bet there's people out there that'll spend weeks messing with the AI code or making new planes just because that's what passionate sim fans do!