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The irony is that the console versions are the least-impacted, as the client-side hacks are only loadable on the PC version.

Trusting the client works on consoles since they're locked down.

Porting that same idea to PCs gets you into trouble almost instantly.

Hence my question - is this a console port gone horribly wrong?

Walton's phrasing is kind of ambiguous, Console port could mean port from console or port to console.

It could have been developed for console first.

"Console port" in the gaming world unambiguously means "a game that was originally developed for a console, then ported to the PC." The opposite would be "PC port."

Generally these days it isn't a port per-se it's simply one codebase compiled for different platforms. So I'm sure they just take the stance of 'this always worked on the console (where it's much harder to run modified code)'.

Actually, after extraction of data files, it points out that it is likely a PC port to console instead of the usual console port way.