do not restrict android mods to cyanogenmod. it is like saying "can i start apache on my system boot on debian like i did on slackware?"
what you are looking for is how to format you sd card in Ext so it can a 1st party partition. breaths new life to old phones. like the intentionally storage crippled samsung nexus
I have not seen that complaint from people fiddling with the cm11 4.4.2 build