Mechanolith has written
Alistaire has written
Yes so that it can be forgotten in the File Archive.
Like any other mod.
No, if you see it by that point of view, no skin, map, script or anything has a point in being done.
Most of my scripts took less than a day to create. They didn't take too much effort. A whole DayZ mod however would take ages to develop and then released for this 'small and independent software developer's' game.
I would rather create something small and easy than create a whole mod for a game maybe WORTH the mod, but not worth the effort because of the lack of popularity.
Also, you don't really learn that much from scripting a Lua mod which you can later use for work in whatever game development studio.