The paid modding completely crashed and burned and it while it was an incredible move of not reading the room it did lead to the creation club, and while not all of it was great, did provide some fantastic assets and systems for modders to use. The "tiny patches" I think is a nonstarter because literally every other game has similar patches and other than the special edition and anniversary edition (which were years apart) mods truck along just find and don't break as much as you'd think. Other than that their mod support has been pretty incredible and like I said as long as they keep using Creation Engine they physically can't stop modding even if they flipped around tomorrow.

I'm not suggesting that, my point has been that hobby can just be a hobby. It is very cool that the tools and resources are there to make your own projects, but again I don't want to. Whether for money or fun is irrelevant to me, modding is simply a hobby for me to support the hobby of playing videogames. Learning Unreal and creating resources takes away my finite time, and to be frank I'd rather just be killing dragons or fighting off raiders in a Bethesda game.