Appreciate the clarification. I did not realize that these tools violated the rules before the claimed changes to the TOS on April 15th. I was going off the reasons listed by the tool creators themselves who alleged that VRchat team stated that the tools directly conflicted with the creator economy and did not list any other reasons for why these tools were taken down.
While I still think the loss of these tools highlight a major need from the community for easier ways to upload packages, and would appreciate clarification from official channels in regards to how the VRC devs plan to handle uploading in the framework of the creator economy, this adds important context that makes the situation a little more understandable.