Additionally, I would guess Nexus also wants to remain competitive in the mod hosting market. Minecraft (Curseforge, Modrinth) and the Sims community have modder reward programs, for example, and it is quite possible that modders could have been drawn away in the future to a competing platform...
I do agree that we should look at the limitations we set here, some do seem very artificial. For professional racing sims clients are happy to just throw the most powerful GPUs at it. So I think it's worth to just make the reflection map, even for dynamic reflections, more flexible. T...