This game badly needs mods and macros.

Actually... it does

By your own admission, which is the more challenging experience:

Bossfight with Enrage Timer that pushes DPS/Threat Management to the limit:
(a) Recount/Omen running for near perfect Threat Management and real-time DPS Metrics?
(b) No addons requiring the same near perfect execution without little bars to tell you how you are doing?

Exact same fight. One is much easier than the other. Hmm... I wonder why that is?

Yes it does.

Trying to incorrectly use a dozen periods in your sentence to try to highlight your words does not make it so.

You use addons for convenience. Convenience is another word for "the act of making something easier".

Unless you are living in a world where 2+2 != 4, the very premise of addons is to make the game easier. Either addons make it easier by reducing the amount of concentration you need to invest (IE: telling when there is about to be fire that needs to be dodged) or by making it easier by rearranging data in an easier to read format (IE: rearranging your UI so that it's more friendly) - the very premise of an addon is to "make the game easier for you."

Very few people would ever install an addon or mod that would make the game more difficult.

That was my point...it WAS NOT WIDESPREAD.

Exactly. I think the fundamental point has been far overlooked.
The point being "Would hackjobs and macros benefit THIS game?"

Ok, we get it, it benefitted that game that I will never name or even exclaim. However for SW:TOR? Why is there this driving need for them, when its flippen easy with the archaic and annoying UI it currently has (which they have said they are updating)? I don't see the point for them in SW:TOR. Nothing is difficult here.

Why should they need to research about their class to be competitive in a game they have bought and pay subscription for?

Why should the need to gear up their character to be competitive in a game they have bought and pay subscription for?

Why should they need to level their character to be competitive in a game they have bought and pay subscription for?

Why should they need to play by not smacking their head against the keyboard to be competitive in a game they have bought and pay subscription for?

There is no divide about "haves" and "have-nots" when it comes to addons and macros, because quite simply there are no "have-nots".

Also, there isn't a single thing in WoW that is impossible without addons. Addons are simply quality of life tools, that allow you customize your game experience. Nothing more.

Since addons and macros are features, I'm guessing that you'd have problem with them?

Neither is raiding in WoW...

... and neither is this "perceived" notion that the raiding game is ultra popular in TOR and TOR must have addons or it was fail concept that is bantered about regarding addons.

In truth:

Most people do not want or would not install addons, especially if they require significant effort.

Most people will not raid and if they do, will not raid on a regular basis.

Most people will not even read these forums to know this thread even exists.

In the end, all this banter about addons and mods are for a very small subset of the playerbase as a whole. It is a thinly veiled disguise for yet another plea by the elitist crowd to have some mechanism placed into the game to give them a way to distinguish themselves from the lesser caste of players, otherwise known as "the noobs".

Be there, done that. Did not buy the shirt.

Oh... and, just because.

Wait, most people dont raid so we dont need mods? Wut? Did I not say that the most popular mods are not even raid mods? Yes I did so what are you saying here? WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF YOUR POST?

CTmod was the single most download mod for WoW with its raid component being the 3rd most download submod and that is nothing but a raid frame...hell even Gearscore isnt even in the top 10 most download mods of all time and it is far more popular than any raid effecting mod.

Your argument point is a redherring.

OH and BTW if you wish to try to continue with the, it isnt going to be used by the majority of the playerbase so isnt needed BS...

PvP isnt not something the majority will take part in so it isnt needed
Roleplaying, dont need it, few do it, so get rid of social points and everything tied to it.
Space combat? Few players...get rid of it.
Raiding, as you say...
4 man epics? Same
Flashpoints...

Oh hell Bioware you may as well shut the servers down your entire game is made up of a bunch of things that most people wont take part it and as SOME people say, if most people wont take part in it, we dont need it.

Byebye...

playing without addons is much more rewarding, unless u don't like challanges and have trouble coordinating ur abilities.

go play farm ville or wow pls

I just don't see the necessity to have them in this game, and I hope that the developers have the good sense to not add them.