I wonder how many of you know where Arthmoor came from. Quarn and Kivan were authors of the Oblivion Unofficial patches. Kivan was making unofficial patches way back in the days of Baldur's Gate (the 1st and 2nd ones) and Quarn made his name on modding Bethesda titles. Arthmoor was a protege that joined them in the last days of their work on Oblivion patches long after Bethesda had moved on. When Skyrim was announced, Quarn made it clear he wasn't going to continue his work on that game and Kivan expressed a similar attitude. They decided to pass that responsibility to the very eager Arthmoor.
Quarn and Kivan kept their work focused on fixing bugs, not introducing subjective changes to the content. They were measured and respectful. This is where Arthmoor diverges from their efforts and earns his much deserved disdain. Much as Arthmoor seeks to change Skyrim to his own distorted view, guided not by conceptual design work but by mining the data files, the AE update introduced content focused solely on making money through the Creation Club. The result is something very different from the game so many people love. If you understand this then you will understand why many mod authors stopped updating their mods with 1.5.97 which, to them, was the definitive final version of the game. Hopefully, then, you'll also understand the futility of trying to shame users into upgrading to 1.6.xxxx when they don't need or want to.
But I digress; the title of this thread is "Skyrim Patreon mods" and this remains a very much off-topic discussion.