You know it will never happen. CoH is daed gaem.
Ye sooo DED.
Well their latest interview did give a hint that they really want to support modding through Steam.
(Yes the focus lies with COH2, but there are some hidden references to OMG/EIR, EF mod etc ...)
But to be honest: COH2 is a dead game aswell, it only hasn't realized it yet. And Relic is the intensive care, holding the poor fella on bypass. While there is very little hope left for full recovery.
But then again Michael Schumacher came back from the dead aswell.
I actually believe they want to support modding to FIND A SOLUTION for their game. They are grasping for straws.
It's like the Ebola crisis: every experimental drugs that seem to work, will have to do.