honestly i don't understand why you need to have your file linked to your account, at least is bettere have file saved on different devices, because if, for wathever reason your account became, unusable, for example, you change computer and forgot the EA password, or someone hack your credential and delete your profile, or EA server have issues ect, in that case, having your files, linked only to your account you risk to lost everything, forever in some case, at least if you don't trust of usb key, you can save the tray and save folder in online storage like google drive (and if you have a google account like gmail, you have 15gb of space for saving file) to save your file in a secure way (not connetted to your profile, but directly to you), and i don't understand what extra effort for mods you talk, we talk to copy a mod from the folder where you downloaded it, to paste into the mod folder, cost of operations? 3 seconds more less.
i didn't want to have to leave the game to save, because doing all this is gambiarra is not an official way
Gambiarra has no English translation, but it would be:
Gambiarra is an improvisation, an adjustment [invention] made in any way that solves a certain problem during a certain period. Remembering that the period usually extends until the gambiarra starts to fail and is then replaced by another gambiarra.
it's like an improvised, unofficial way that's not well guaranteed but it might work
