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> Mojang, even pre microsoft, has never provided any sort of modding support.

I believe Mojang now provides deobfuscation mappings[0] which makes life slightly easier for modders.

[0] Although all I can find are people saying "we should move to Mojang's mappings!" rather than an official Mojang announcement.

Whats the point of the obfuscation in the first place, if they offer mappings to deobfuscate it?

I suspect it's one of those "this has been in the build process for a decade and there ain't no way we're attempting to change it now" things.