Do not do as I did - BUT, it's turning out just fine anyway.

I tore mine about 2.5 years ago. Last ski run, well - ever - but, days before the pandemic shut down the whole world in March 2020. By the time elective surgeries opened up again and by the time my own work schedule relaxed a bit (I am a geriatric internal medicine NP - I did straight covid during the pandemic - and still do, but it's 100% less balls to the wall,) I felt pretty good without it.

HOWEVER, I finally got my surgery done last month bc without an ACL - I would sprain my knee about once a month - mowing the lawn, exercising, playing with my kid, etc. It wasn't worth putting it off any more. That said, after 2.5 years of a full thickness rupture of my ACL, my knee was actually... pretty decent. The repair was straight forward, my meniscus was in good shape (did require a suture), and I'm healing without complication or much complaint. My knee seemed to compensate without a lot of additional collateral damage. That said, it's a long recovery, so get it done bc you're just wasting time otherwise....