Also the idea that modding is somehow moderated... No. What happened was that all the easy bad ideas have been tried, and shown to be bad, or at least, to lack longevity and interest. What that leaves you with is a smaller but still pretty broad zone of good ideas that work, and ideas that might or might not work but take a lot of effort just to try out.
As someone with a mod in progress who has received almost nothing but encouragement and offers of resources and generally good advice; not only are you consummately full of it, you're insulting the people producing, and helping to produce, exactly the thing you say you want: good and interesting mods. if the end product doesn't meet your standards, feel free to put your junk on the chopping block with the rest of us.
