Yeah, they actually edited the quote about an hour after I posted this.
It's pretty nice because their initial verbiage seemed to indicate no immediate plans for the editor. With the revised answer, there's clear indication they're planning to release the editor at some point, though it might be long while from now.
The original mods being incompatible with EE was something that was clear to me before release of EE. The lack of modding tools on EE launch wasn't though. I'm glad they're at least looking into it, because mod tools were one of the reasons I bought the original game.
