Wrong, sir. My plugin is what disabled them in the first place (as requested directly by cyp, don't hate me D; ), I'm not sure what's going to happen later on though I'm sure hoppers will be reenabled at some point.
What ever it is you are doing I am sure you are doing it to better the gaming experience. God knows people get annoyed with cheaters. Patience in a virtue, just manually collect what you need. We can wait!
Any update on the hoppers situation? I'd like to point out that hoppers aren't just used for collecting from farms, they're also very useful very a wide variety of redstone circuits. I would love to be able to get my redstone devices working again