There is no modding in bedrock. Dont let yourself get fooled. They’re talking about datapacks and resourcepacks.

Look at curseforges bedrock „mods“ https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft-bedrock/search?page=1&pageSize=20&sortType=2&class=addons

Its really structures and items mostly. No comparison to the complete overhaul you can give it in java.

There’s no normal discussion here. They want bedrock to be good because they’re used to it and point fingers at the objective arguments others make: microtransactions jump at you outside the shop, kids get sucked into paying for free stuff, they’re incompatible by design (but java modders made it possible to play cross platform), java mechanics didn’t carry over to bedrock for no reason.

These are all valid arguments and they dont want to hear it.

Modding on bedrock is a completely different world. Our mods are different, for sure. The difficulty comes in version updates. Because older versions of bedrock do not work. But active modders are generally pretty good about keeping stuff up to date.

I currently have a huge skyblock oneblock modpack I'm using at the moment. it's quite fun.

I do wonder if it's prior reputation is what keeps modders from using the platform.

There is a stigma associated with bedrock that persists to this day, unfortunately. It'd be nice to see modding get more robust and see more modders trying their take on bedrock mods more often. Here's hoping that happens in the future.