Thank you very much for not becoming a slave of greed and immaturity 
It's a bit more complex than that.
The only thing that really made me hate the situation, personally, was the comment from 'Valve legal department' that said if another mod was being offered free to the public, people should feel free to poach it for paid mods. That should have never, ever been said and also doesn't hold up legally. :|
Hope it all works out, though. I'd much rather see them put into place a system where mod developers are just encouraged to work more closely with game publishers, and in some cases are merely allowed to release paid mods as 'non-official DLC' that the development studio signs off on. I do firmly believe that some mods are so involved, and have high enough production values, that they should have the right to collect a bit of income, but not in the current system they are trying to push. As it was said... a clusterfuck, and anyone who watched what happened with Bukkit for Minecraft knew what was coming.
