Originally posted by jonnin:

I prefer to live and let live, but the modding of this game has reached a level that it appears to be a detriment to the game development. Not just the fake bug reports from mod problems, but every issue players dislike is modded away instead of being heavily reported, making it hard for them to prioritize what to give us. I get that some stuff is out of that bubble (like metal portaling, they said no, mods said yes, and its resolved) but a lot of things are not in the realm of declared "we won't do that" and are no longer being pushed on because some mod offered it (easier to just get it now and not ask for it officially).

This is definitely a thing, but I see it as self-inflicted. The devs said "that's never going to happen", and the community responded with "We'll just mod it, then"... the devs flat out said "this won't be fixed" about something a large number of people felt very strongly about, so now the community doesn't trust them to actually do anything right, and looks to third-party tools to make the game "work properly".

People are actually "completing the game for the developers" with mods, at this point, and claiming the slow pace of development means Valheim might as well already be abandonware.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHvOJmUA2rU

Originally posted by Awen:

Are the updates breaking ALL the mods or just a specific few?

The most recent updates broke BepInEx itself, which effectively means "all mods". It has been fixed with an unofficial update (not the original mod author), but BepInEx itself is (as I understand it) still broken.