I'm somewhere between the top two. I use mods, but I also have a dedicated save for playing when I have no mods installed (so, after patch day while waiting for mods to update) and I'm trying to re-evaluate which mods I really "need" (mostly bugfix mods) vs. those I simply like because the Dev team decided X about a given system, and I'd rather play it with Y.
Because there are certain glitches with the game (mostly AI lag) that simply happen less in my vanilla save, I'm trying to cut down.
But the mods that are basically cheats made easy are going to stay. :wink: