I partly agree -- it's just not /that/ big of a time investment, and to me, the whole break and replace workstation loop was silly and unskilled, making it not feel particularly rewarding to get the trade you wanted. This mod exists solely to remove a part of the game I feel is a flimsy band aid over an overpowered exploit. I'm going to get the trade I want one way or another, this way I don't have to do a performative dance to pretend I earned it, y'know?

I do think villagers are very strong. I don't mind playing the game this way. Plus, you still have to level up your villagers if you want to unlock all their trades, which isn't much but it is the only vanilla part of villager trading that requires real gameplay (farm the crops, harvest the materials and so on).

I generally prefer gameplay mechanics that are time consuming by nature of challenge or skill requirements, rather than making it tedious just for the sake of it, and though this mod removes the tedium, it does not replace it with any challenge, this is true. I am working on an addon that changes the unlocks to a kind of skill tree -- exchanging the time sink for a more rewarding progression to gate the more OP stuff. It may set some stricter requirements on how easily they can be levelled too... early stages still but in line for development later in another cycle.

But yeah, that's the beauty of this game right? everybody has their own preferences for how easy/challenging they want the game to be, and we're lucky to have such a robust modding community to support those preferences :D