I actually really enjoyed reading this write-up, and kudos to the author for doing the deep dive. But as someone who has been modding games since the early 200

I actually really enjoyed reading this write-up, and kudos to the author for doing the deep dive. But as someone who has been modding games since the early 2000s, whenever performance issues come up, disabling the mods is usually my first step when diagnosing issues. The author explains why this wasn't his first instinct (given the warning signals), but testing from a vanilla state is always a good methodology IMO.