I am not by any means at all a voice of authority on this forum, but I would still like to strongly suggest to the OP that they choose their words a little more carefully, meaning perhaps infuse a bit patience and kindness into them. Had they brought the issue to us at NRaas, even though it probably has nothing to do with mods, and had we tried to help, they would have gotten exactly the same advice.
Not all solutions resonate with all players immediately or in exactly the same way. And some problems do have more than one path to resolution (not sure this one does, Method by Mell is golden for those who would rather not dump all of their Launcher installed game content and rebuild it from scratch one piece at a time). But referring to the products and guides of one of the finest and tireless helpers of Sims games ever to be on the scene as absolutely worthless is a bit over the line, I'm afraid, even if it were really the case that it's not the correct solution for the given problem. :/