As badly as I want to see what Vortex looks like, I totally understand the idea that you have to actually use it to be able to provide meaningful feedback. I'm really looking forward to this.
As for the virtualization discussion, I am looking forward to seeing how Vortex works with hard links. I understand the desire for a "clean" data folder but my biggest problem has been when I want to just nuke my mod installs and start fresh, I have ended up with an un-launchable game and have had to reinstall it, which takes hours to download. I hope I can more easily do that with Vortex.
Thanks for the update. Keep up the good work.