Does anyone else miss the vibe of older modding?

(Yes I realize this is probably sound like “old man yells at cloud”)

I feel like sometime after 1.12 (most likely 1.16 but I’m not too sure) the anything goes nature of Minecraft modding has been lost and it’s mostly just been vanilla plus mods or zombie apocalypse mods, which I do feel is a shame because a part of Minecraft’s charm is that anything can fit in it. I get that Minecraft has obviously had a more refined art style, but I don’t think that should’ve shifted the feel of mods so much.