"The Choice Is Yours" and Boredom

[arecaidianfox]

Let me start off by saying that I love The Choice Is Yours. It's a fantastic idea and it's well-executed. I have used it for over a year and not had a single problem, in terms of something failing or an error related to the mod itself.
But I have noticed a strange side-effect of using it. Not on the game itself-ish, but more on how I feel about Skyrim. I took a break from Skyrim for three months after a year of unsuccessful builds of my modded game. I needed a break so when I went back, I knew what mods really were essential to what I wanted in my core Skyrim experience (and on a side note, it's awesome that we can do that, have totally different experiences based on mods). Obviously, TCIY made my list. But as I roamed Skyrim with my new and thankfully more stable build, I noticed something I thought I could never feel with a modded Skyrim game. I was bored. I sat and thought about it, even taking a break from heavy gameplay for another couple days to ponder it. Here is what I came up with...In taking away dumps of Journal entries for quests, I felt the game lost direction. Why do we do quests, especially those of us who have done them several times over the last three-ish to four years the game has existed? Because they are in that Journal. We see them every time we press Pause. Whatever your motive beyond that doesn't matter, but as for me, I don't like clutter in my Journal. So, in my theory, "Journal - Quest Entries = Loss of Direction and Overall Boredom".
A solution may be a new Journal section. Let's call it Held Quests (though "Suspended" might be a better word) for the sake of the discussion. A Held Quest is one you have removed from your main Journal page, so you don't see it every time you press pause. It's a way to manage the Journal while (possibly) not losing the sense of direction the game gives you in dumping quests into your Journal. Hell, take that a bit further and add an Abandon Quest function that you can use from either the Journal or Held Quests page. It would remove the quest completely if you had no interest in it. Then, maybe a while later in the game it gives you the option to add the quest back into your Journal, possibly through a random world encounter. Or you could simply go and talk to the original quest giver to pick it back up. Which method would obviously vary by the type of quest. Adding those layers of management to the Journal, instead of making most quests not appear there at all until you start them, could be a better way to mod the Journal and change how the player handles quests.

What are your thoughts, as other users of mods, maybe even this mod? And especially what are the thoughts of mod authors who read this? I'd like to know. And just as a note, I posted a nearly identical wall-o-text on TCIY's page as well.