Operators are not mods, why are they disabled in the grendel missions?

[Crusher4881]

The condition for these missions is "No Mods". An operator does not equip mods, but yet they're still disabled. Operators should not be disabled in these missions because they are not mods.

 

[YUNoJump]

I imagine they're just disabled because they'd undermine the purpose of the restrictions in the first place. Operators don't use the modding system, so if it really was just "no mods", then people would just pull out their Operators and use all of the Focus abilities and Arcanes to bypass the challenge. The "no mods" restriction is just the simplest way to convey that players can't use special gear of any kind, if Mods weren't so central to the game's difficulty then the challenge would have a different name.