@Blouie I feel like thinks like enchanting and stuff ruined what I wanted out of the "original spirit" way more. I started playing when you couldn't attack enemies in multiplayer though. And then he added pistons and redstone. I thought it was going in the full technology direction, but then they kinda pivoted to magic and stuff. Not that that's bad, but for me, building big ass technical production lines was always the cool part. And a lot of people do this in vanilla, to an extreme degree even. Just look at all the mob and block farms they build. That is cool and all but it feels way more against "the original spirit" to abuse some weird glitchy mechanic instead of just having a mod for a machine that can harvest for you...

It's definitely a way different experience and I get why it's not for everyone.