Yeah see I hate it when dev studios let their vision of the game become more important than players actually enjoying it. Glad I got my moneys worth out of A16 cause I doubt I'll ever reinstall it.
Got over 800 hours in 7DTD, mostly alpha 18, base game is easy, so if you get bored play like the Darkness Falls mod, really good and will stomp you fast until you learn it, especially playing on 64 mobs for horde night. Playing A19 currently, i like the challenge of the hordes, you have to learn how to build good bases with auto turrents and traps etc, the demolishers make it so that you have to reinforce the kill box and make it hard to use the exploits ppl come up with, plus in A19 they fixed several of the worst exploits.
Im back to the base game to see how it plays, will be awhile i think for the Mods to get updated and there are several good ones like Darkness Falls, Ravenhearst, War3zuk, are a few more but not sure if they are up to date to at least A18. A19 also updated graphics on alot of the game and some new items, and has been optimized.
Anyways at least for me they are fun and when the base game gets boring changing to a mod keeps it fresh. Also, there is an app called Nitrogen that gives you the ability to customize the Random worlds generation and use prefabs that players have made that are really good and make even the base game alot more interesting. Ive only played Solo, but there are ppl that run servers for multiplayer.