I felt exactly the same way about Rimworld when 1.6 released after a wildly long time on 1.5. I’d just got it set up on a newly rebuilt gaming pc, and did all the work to manually download, install, and sort new copies of about 1,000 mods (not on steam, refuse to use it for anything other than finding mods - I've since found rimsort which has workshop access and steamcmd built in, along with some other sources I haven’t explored, which is swanky af.) and then 1.6 dropped which would break literally all my mods because they changed how the game runs, and..

I just said absolutely not and left it at 1.5 for a long time while I continued to play my perfectly good functional game (do some games not let you choose to update or not, not the ones mentioned cuz I read the article and know its optional, but any? If you -can- choose, why does this even matter? Fomo?). I recently updated everything, now that I have rimsort for the mods, and.. yeah game is almost exactly the same, and runs the same, but some of the mods are built in now. And they added birds and water plants I guess. Yay. Taking two full days to set everything up again was so worth it… Most of it is junk I’ll never interact with, because the modded stuff I’m used to is superior. I haven't even tried to go to space, that crap isn't what I’m playing for (ridiculous base building and hoarding is, and “spreadsheets and warcrimes: the game” is exactly my jam for those two things).

A lot of the newer mods are considerably better, though, so there IS that..