MrKorx's IDE will certainly give a superb alternative to Modders, but for the basic "players" of GC2TA, the editors will always be available from a boot menu. It's up to SD to decide if they want them backported to DA, fill up pages worth of documentation to help people modify the stuff -- lucky them, as you surely know we *notepadded* our ways into our needs. While writing up tons of posts in these Forums.
There's plenty of room for both -- if only because GC3 *will* happen.