I have loved the mod - it adds things I think are really lacking in vanilla. In particular, things like simple wood - I've never cared about whether a log is elm or birch etc, I prefer rough wood. I guess some people love the variety, to me its annoying. Same with umpteen varieties of leather etc. Its leather. I don't care what beast it came from.
A few things annoyed me though, but nothing to make going back to vanilla.
Just because you can add something, doesn't mean you need to, picturing *Redacted typhoon here - its a glut of things atm, small e.g. is I tend to remove things like the Dragonfire rain - that is just unplayable. If its in there for 'testing', I'd go a branch on a git repo and not subject the end user to it, its fairly ridiculous - and from a previous post, not as rare as you want. All my ideal sites are barrens (I like flat, unembellished sites with no ugly ponds), and this lovely fire shows up a lot. But in general, it feels a bit like you've added anything you can get your hands on w/o thinking about the balance.
Minor niggles are the bone reaction - in terms of grinding them down to make carbonating thingies. I'm not sure how much wiggle room is there, in terms of using the whole stack. If its possible to introduce an intermediate item that'd be a nice change. I love the tree farming aspect, I tend to turtle and not buy anything if possible.
Thanks for all the hard work anyway, much appreciated here, adding an interesting touch to an interesting game.
Cheers.
* Its Mercer Myer I think. He or she had great little books.