Paradoxos mod manager or irony mod manager?

[Hot Wet Nobel Laureates]

Which one do you think is better?

[Old Ben]

With over 3000 hours of play time I have only ever used the Stellaris launcher and built-in mod manager and have had very few issues, as long as you understand how to place mods in the correct load order. I use one play set for no mods for testing/verifying issues and another play set with about 50 or so mods. Works great for me.

[Cosmic Cat]

Irony Mod Manager is better in all ways:

*Does not break your game if Stellaris is updated (like the recent 30% stuck-bug)
*Better and easier sorting
*Allows you to merge all mods into one mod which makes it easy to make sure players have same mods in multiplayer (if you use many).
*If you use compress on your merge then the game loads A LOT faster and the mods take less space on your harddrive.
*It allows you to see if you have conflicts between which mods, what the conflicts are exactly and it even allows you to fix them!

Only downsides I can think of is that you have to re-merge your pack if you want the latest update of a mod and in case you're "afraid" to use third party software (but then you should probably stick to vanilla).

For me there's zero reason to use the default launcher, especially after the 30% stuck-bug fiasco recently. It's like playing modded Bethesda games and using default launcher instead of NMM/Vortex etc.