Giantjay & Zanderat:
Well it turns out that Giantjay was spot on. None of my mods in "Creations" was activated. The problems now it seems is like Giantjay said. Vortex mods not working. You can do everything to sort them activate them, etc., etc. but that information doesn't make it through to Bethesda/the game. Then you have sorting or "load order" in both, but again there seems to be a disconnection from Vortex's load order to Bethesda so you can only choose Bethesda's load order. Which one is correct??? AND ANOTHER ISSUE.... not all my mods in Vortex sow on the Bethesda Creation list and visa versa. So say I have activated mods in Vortex, but can't activate, deactivate, or even see them in Bethesda list load order which brings me to the question.. are they even recognized by Bethesda /the game since they don't show in the Bethesda Creation list? Boy, this whole situation has been a real snafu.
By all actions (IMHO) show Bethesda is or wants to take over and control the whole downloading mods and installing process.. thus rendering Vortex and Nexus null, possibly tightening up on "only THEIR approved mods" I don't know.. I mean why would they do this otherwise?