Utterly Mad

apologies for double post, but I don't think we have a thread for just discussing mods, and this is the closest of the two about modding.

So I know we have a few people who play Payday 2 and I've got a question more out of curiousity then anything.

First off: is using a hud modification cheating?
In my opinion not really, it's not hurting anyone's game experience and it's providing information that in my opinion should have been in the base game's hud.

Second: Thoughts on Goon Mod?
this one is hard to explain and I'm on the fence on it myself. It adds a lot of fun stuff with mutators, which do stuff like make all the bullets(yours and the cops) explosive, modifying enemy spawn to be harder(IE X6 spawn ratio), and various other things.
But here's the thing, with this stuff enabled you cannot play a public match with people who don't have the modification, so it's not detrimental to anyone's experience, oh and it disables achievements while you are using them.
and it allows you to trade stuff with other players, like customization items and weapons.