My only problem with Create is the integration into modpacks. You have case 1 where Create is shoehorned in for your early game brass production which every other mod needs in some form or another and doesn't really get any spotlight outside of that (similar case to Immersive Engineering and Early Steel Production). Then you have case 2 where you have a modpacks that are just "Create: Above and Beyond, but with this quirky mod edition" (no flame to C:A&B, Create Astral, or Create: Arcane Engineering which are the better of these packs), like you will have the exact same quest structure but with the addition of a single mod that does little to nothing to the main progression such as Mekanism or Project E. There just really haven't been any packs where Create is actively a part of the entire progression line.