Anyone else enjoy playing without cc or mods?

No. I have a lot of CC because I get on downloading sprees or I want to find something specific or because there isn't enough male hair that I like, but I appreciate the fact that the game itself is providing more and better CAS and objects as time goes on. The improvement is really amazing and I could probably be satisfied at this point without using much if any CC.

I use mods because there are aspects of the gameplay that I either dislike or would just prefer to have more control over, and because modders seem to come up with fixes for bugs or certain gameplay annoyances a lot faster than the devs do (watching a Sim leave a nicely appointed kitchen and walk across a lot to prepare a salad on a garage counter can make me rage quit). I intensely dislike relationship culling so I use MCCC to dispense with it. :P I also like being able to adjust age spans to my preference. There are other things as well. I don't think I could play strictly vanilla anymore and I'm willing to put up with the hassle of updating the mods I choose after patches; the major ones are usually updated very quickly and are easy to replace.