One thing for sure. Keep your installation as simple as possible if you don't want mod soup. Just a casual survey of Subsim will reveal a ghastly number of people with "what's wrong" questions who have lists of a dozen or more mods. Don't go there!
With RFB or TMO you can safely add sub skins, missions, custom keyboard layouts, a different bearing plotters and........practically nothing else if you want gameplay to be what the designers intended. Do not add environmental mods. Do not add Webster's GFO components, do not add mods to add or subtract floaty stuff in the water. Resist!
In restraint lies the way to happiness.
