Why a single new mod can't be deployed without rewriting the whole folder?

[tduality]

Why a single new mod can't be deployed without rewriting the whole folder with 500 mods?

[Guest deleted34304850]

can you offer a bit more meat on the bones of your post?

for example, what game, what mod - that sort of thing.

[Pickysaurus]

Vortex does more than just deploying a single mod. It also checks the integrity of the existing mods. If you've manually edited the mod files or changes some conflict rules it will carry forward those changes (or report them to you).

[Tannin42]

That. Creating the links for the mod takes very little time, checking for external changes that might have happened since the previous deployment can take longer, that's why you might notice little difference between deploying one mod vs deploying all of them but technically Vortex only deploys the files that were changed.