How do you all handle the "Broken" mods issue? Why use mods at all?

"Minai;c-18125946" wrote:
If aliens wouldn’t randomly abduct my sims or I could adjust age settings and knock the random flirting out
I totally wouldn’t mod
My former TS3 game was modless but seriously damaged my laptop :/

I must have had around 20+ NRaas, Industries (Twallen) mods in my Sims3 game just to stabilize it. I played on a gaming rig, too. I'm so sorry your laptop was damaged in the process. It's a game tough on computers, that much is certain.