I once played this game as an overly ambitious, underly curious teen who wanted to create the best skins and adventure maps like what I'd seen YouTubers play. Too scared of plugins or mods, everything was handmade.
While I no longer create here, Minecraft will forever have my soul. My aptitude for Redstone applied toward engineering in real life, and my ambition now to design systems has lead me to the Create modpacks. I now spend my free hours playing other games with friends or making/playing adventures in D&D, which requires much less overhead.