Imo, the NG+ is nothing you should see as the final "goal" or to-do. Forcing yourself to do Ng+ over and over is something that will drag your motivation real fast because you always reset your progress. Do that once in a while like you would restart skyrim or fallout, but with a ng+ instead. Its more like a bonus added on top of the game. And i also would never compare a vanilla game with a game that has been heavily modded for 8 years, access to the CK and thousands of 'devs'.