>I personally think they've constructed a solid foundation for future modders to seamlessly integrate the entire universes of Star Trek, Star Wars, Mass Effect, Battlestar Galactica, Aliens, etc.

that's great, and yeah I am basically solely interested in this game for mods, but the base layer just isn't worth it, Skyrim was built to be a game first, mods were second, same with Fallout 4, this game was clearly built to be a modding engine first, a game somewhere in second or third. And yet despite that, modding tools are months away when they should have realistically arrived at launch.