I understand why the Patch Project doesn't do this, I think it should have been done by P'dox inthe first place. But now there's soon a HOI3, and so realistically I don't expect them to do that now either.
I don't want to blame anyone, I just hope they would generally keep moddability as high as possible, and that shouldn't only cover text files, but all other aspects of their games, incl. the graphics. Apart from multiplayer a high moddability seems to be the second big pro for games these days, and it was always a strength in P'dox games especially. That is why I find it so strange that they took out an option that was present in the earlier HOI, it seems to be a step back, and I hope that's not the general tendency for future P'dox games.
I fully agree with BeBro