Why am I the only one who thinks the vanilla game is stupid as fuck?

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This game is honestly total shit. I have no idea how it's even managed to last as long as it has. It appeals to an incredibly small audience and has practically no objective. Your goal is to survive by mining and building dirt huts? It doesn't even have quests to give meaning to playing. The reason our server died down the past 5 months is because the game has lost all purpose. The only grand goal of the game I could see was to build cool stuff, so I thought I'd just make it easier for you guys to do so with the mods.

IMO, playing legit a total turnoff. It's like...let's say I were to join a server with lots of crazy stuff where people with literally no lives have been building stuff for the last 6 months. I'm like, "WHOA! That's so cool! I want to do something like that!" I would think their dedication to the game is insane (aside from thinking they are total losers); however, when I start thinking about the amount of time it took them with no lives, it goes from "I want to do something like that!" to "wow fuck this gay shit, I'm bored," and I don't even want to try.

If you don't want to use any of the mods because you are up for a lame challenge in your "my wood house is better than your wood house" pissing contest, you don't have to. If you're offended by anyone who gets enjoyment from building big stuff with infinite item mods because they don't want to waste half their time doing miscellaneous bullshit, then play solo.

Of course, all of that just my opinion. This just comes as a surprise to me that people want to waste time mining to waste time building. I refuse to start a server that I personally wouldn't find any enjoyment in. However, if you guys are really sure you want to play the classic way, I'll suggest a compromise. Server ops (people who have the ability to actually control the server; ie me) get WorldEdit permissions. Infinite day would only be enabled if I'm playing and night pisses me off. Creeper environment damage is disabled. Mobs only spawn outdoors or in mines (so if you want to build something cool, you don't need to have torches literally everywhere). Craftbook wouldn't be enabled unless you get incredibly bored of playing classic, which frankly I'm alright with since it's not updated often enough. I can't remember anything else.

e: actually if I used craftbook at all, it would only be for [gate] and [bridge]