Does anyone still play Vanilla? What keeps you from modding it, or what convinced you to?

I've played Vanilla as long as I can remember (since I was 7), I've beaten the main quest lines twice since then. So I decided to spice things up a bit and, realized that the Vanilla version is too precious to mod, it hinders the entire thing unplayable for me, so I removed all the mods and reinstalled the game. Is anyone else the same way?

Or is anyone still on the fence about it, or anyone who's decided to stick to keeping Skyrim modded?

This isn't a question I would actually fully benefit from, I just wanna hear your opinions on it to see if I'm the only one who's like this here.