There is no reason modding couldn't be a job, and a number of modders are able to do it full time thanks to getting enough donations. And not even subscriptions are the real problem here, if the mods require constant updates, and people are willing to pay for them due to the perceived value they get.
The main issue here is that the terms of use for Cyberpunk 2077 forbid commercial services as in mods only available behind a paywall, and that has a lot to do with giving up the control over IP as you mentioned, and people's expectations, with things going wrong with the already paid for mod subscription at least partly falling back onto CDPR, who had nothing to do with it, and didn't benefit in any way.
This isn't really a moral question, more a legal one, with the position that all modders are expected to work for free (hobby), only relying on the goodwill of the community, just as questionable as modders financially benefitting from the work of others without either their permission or paying them back.
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