Once upon a time Forge was there to make mods compatible and play well together.
Those days are gone now. Bring on the days of make a decision to use a mod based solely on a developers decision to join the borg or not.
This is not a good thing. put in a wrapper. Choice = good. Demands of do it our way or else = bad for everyone involved.
Someone need to take out the condescending stick out of their asshole and educate itself before making stupid comments.
Forge as always been like this, Modders NEED to use forge for the maximum degree of compatibility because otherwise its almost impossible (Unless that particular modder modify files that forge itself doesn't use). Forge its just a tool that gives you access to Minecraft Base files without the need to modify them yourself + A whole other array of tools at your disposition.