I'm looking forward to Immersive Vehicles. It's already on 1.16.5, and I look forward to whatever Don Bruce and co come up with!
I think it's a "cultural wars" kind of thing, but the Chinese version of it. They envision a strong, proud, nationalist society, and kids laying around playing video games when they could be working towards becoming the ideal citizen of tomorrow.
Not too bad. 7 books, three having question marks to indicate that I may not, in fact, read them. I've got a few on top of that if you count the "in progress" section.
I haven't played the Switch port, but I was a big fan of the RPG called Omori. It's story heavy, so the best way to play imo is to go in blind and ignore any online content about it until at least the first playthrough is done, maybe even a second.
The cult of the new is pretty strong in modded Minecraft. To be honest, I haven't done much modded stuff in awhile, but 1.16.5 is a solid choice or at least was back when I last put a pack together.
Create is the big new mod that has everyone buzzing. In some ways it's a reaction to the RF-ification and magic blocks/multiblocks that dominated the 1.12 era. Everything is very nice and modular, and it reminds me of Rotarycraft in that respect, though they are very different mods.
Dang it, now I want to play some Rotarycraft. Reika has enough 1.7.10 mods that you can essentially put together your own pack of just them, but I digress.
I feel that most people play modpacks nowadays, but maybe I'm biased as a packdev. I've seen some good progression packs come out, if that's your thing. I'm biased towards my pack, Brass, of course, but Create: Above and Beyond is the official Create modpack with loads of custom content. I never got around to playing it, but it looks neat.