In reply to Rick.

And what about big companies like GoDaddy, Bluehost, Hostgator, that provide modified/customized/enhanced cPanel versions with tons of ads, useless services and features that don't come natively within cPanel? And what about WP Engine and the like, also modifying the WordPress deployment and way of work? While the software is under GPL they can do WHATEVER they want, WHENEVER they want, and there is nothing to do. If you don't like it, just don't purchase from them. It's a free world.

The problem reported in the article IS NOT really the modification per se, is just the lack of evident notification to the users.

That's why I don't recommend using cPAddons. Use it only if you are unable to pay an expert to deploy a WP install in your account, and to keep it up to date. Hosting companies won't take charge, they simply have no time, they have bigger problems to keep under control.

Also, if you just want to test this things out, test it in a staging account, not right in your production website...

Take care :-)