Sims 4 wont launch with ANY mods

I've used mods forever. Recently, my game would launch, and I did all the troubleshooting I would normally do, realized that it launched fine as long as I had no mods. I did do the 50/50 method, it's every single mod, won't launch if there is anything in the mods folder. I redownloaded them just in case they needed an update, but still won't launch. Please help, I miss my Sims :(

I'm on a MacBook Air, but that's never been an issue before 

Thanks to anyone who knows what to do

steps i have taken:

tried to open my game one day - didn't launch, it had been a while, so i refreshed all my mods

It still doesn't launch

vanilla test - yes it does open so i know its something to do with my mods

50/50 method (1st try) - no matter what mods were taken out/ put back in, the game wouldn't open 

Repaired the game - nothing changed

50/50 (2nd try, I thought maybe I did it wrong) - same as first try

Removed and reinstalled my game - nothing changed 

50/50 (3rd try) - I have no clue tbh, I attempted in small increments, but the files that were causing the issues sometimes weren't causing issues, and sometimes it worked fine despite the files if I added them in a certain way ( if i added 3 or 4 tried to launch and it wouldn't then if i removed one (**it didn't matter what file**) the rest would be fine. But if I attempted this with more than 4, it wouldn't work.  and the ones i ended up removing would still sometimes work. it made no sence

Then i tried just adding my old set of mods back as a final effort - no luck