Yes , all was said above,is helpful and relevant, depends on your rig, why not have both if you have the room on your hard disk. I still have oldrim/ legendary with 200 mods which i tweak and swap around, and with all the minor mods which give a better resolution, also purely a matter of taste, I use the character mods to remove the Fugly element in the vanilla version.After 5000 hours plus, I'm still finding different scenarios for a fresh game. If i hadn't stumbled across the NEXUS, probably would have left the vanilla version after a few plays, the great thing about this community can be summed up with two words "What If?" It helps to have some tailored saves to forgo all the introduction, and use some dlc completed saves to test out other mods. In particular Alternate Start or Skyrim Unbound are great once you've done the main quests, so you're no longer held captive by the quest objectives, With SE I'm using about 90 mods, and agree that it can only get better as more stuff is ported over,if skse64 is released later so what ,they'll get there eventually, we'll enjoy new mods as well, thanks to all the previous authors and new authors that continue with the effort into creating them, I've only 200 hours logged so far on this version, that will increase i have no doubt. Beware Skyrim is a black hole it will suck you in, there's no escape! it can take up a lot of your freetime if you let it, which is the mark of a truly great game.