Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn't want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it's still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I'm wrong)
Most of the people in power today seemingly got their start before 1988, so this checks out: they never did "hand it over to us."