Will Anniversary Edition be treated as a seperate version of Skyrim?

There's one thought that's been making me shiver for a while, so please hear me out.

What if the Anniversary Edition is not actually based on Special Edition, but instead based on VR fork?

Why VR, you'd ask? Well, first of all, Bethesda was never a generous company, let alone a honest one. To suddenly ship paid mods together with the base game, and not just all of them but also 20 more that were never released before? That's too damn suspicious. Why would they start now? Here's an answer: because neither VR nor console versions support ESL plugins!

It's really not hard to imagine they think we had too much freedom with ESLs they essentially implemented for us on PC for free, while their paid mods venture failed to bring as much revenue to the table as they hoped.

Being put back into plugin merging hell like the Oldrim and Oblivion days - as a mod author myself, this is something I never want to deal with again.

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