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Well by definition a hack is anything which circumvents restrictions in software ... in this case the plug in is circumventing the restriction that Adobe made De-haze available ONLY to paid up subscribers of Lightroom CC. Now is it "illegal" ... unlikely you could argue it is illegal. However it is the kind of action which has lead Adobe to dropping stand alone products.
No its no "a bit poor" that stand alone Lightroom didn't have Dehaze. Adobe stated that Lightroom standalone would have certain functionality when it launched the product. It also said that CC would have a continuing improvement and development that Standalone didn't have! To go back to the car analogy ... its like complaining that the radio in you 2015 model can't support Android Car / Apple Play when the one in the new 2017 model does; when the electronics of both radios are the same.
If Adobe didn’t want people to do this it would not be accessible to lightroom develop presets. But Adobe have allowed dehaze to be accessible by pre-sets.
Do you work for adobe, you do seem to be a bit of an Adobe evangelist...