The intent here is to give an additional freedom of choice to codex content creators
I’m specifically a big fan of how OP chose to paint this, lol. Very diplomatic way to tell people to stop using your stuff.
I personally would’ve gone the droid route, not the weapon route, though. The same character creation rules being used against your argument already exist for droid models created in the Factory. We don’t have a problem with it, however, because Staff is 99% of the time going to hold Character Creation, General, and RP rules in higher priority than Factory/Codex.
And also because nobody’s out there using other people’s stuff, even though they can. They’d rather tailor make their own.
Just my 2 cents. Nothing said here will alter the Codex’s decision, which has already been given.