I literally just told you how people can still place it in their desired folder, which would happen to be the same folder as the game, and just point to it.. with that said why don't they just have it retained in that folder and point to it with those lines of code themselves without player...
Mods folder
Due to restrictions from Microsoft, FUTURE updates may change the location of the Mods folder.
These restrictions make it so that the Mods folder can longer be in the same installation folder as 7 Days to Die.
You can specify the location of the UserDataFolder in the game...