Here here.
The good ones will get fed up and leave mod development for other companies games.
Version Every Update Talewards and make it available on the Beta Branch.
That way we can set a version and stick to it.
Only Update the Current Live branch and the Current Beta Branch -
Offline is a lot an extra step, bit cumbersome to have to remember it tbh. (busy lives remember)
The only way to stop steam updating is to set a Beta Version to eg, 1.40 which i have done for weeks. Mods have been stable.
Main branch updates too often and breaks mods. Yes which are optional and not supported, but i would not have purchased the game if i could not use mods, so here we are.
Other games can have 2 installs one denoted by "GameName - Beta", they ought o do this and give people the choice at least