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What was it?
The Nexus added "collections" - essentially mod lists directly from them - and to prevent said lists from breaking all the time, as different mods are updated at different rates, they made it so older versions of a mod couldn't be just removed by the mod author so that a collection that uses that version could still get it.
Lol that's it? That's hardly inconvenient at all, just gotta make sure you don't publish broken shit I guess
Their argument (from my recollection) mostly revolved around their lack of control, they were upset that they could no longer delete all their content off nexusmods.
The sad reality is the reason it was brought forward was due to how frequently mod authors would throw hissy fits and delete their mods.
Wabbajack (precursor to collections and I'd wager still superior for Beth games) mod lists frequently ran into this issue. In many cases it equated to many many hours of work to fix, assuming it wasn't an essential mod.
Wabbajack truly is amazing! I doubt I ever would have taken the time to install Tale of Two Wastelands manually!