As much as I love mods, I personally value vanilla features above anything added by mods. As for Mojang, it feels like a lot of people here are complain about something that isn't out and isn't finished. Even if Mojang fully embraced the modding community, someone one would still find something to mindlessly complain about. 1.7 is going to be an amazing update, mods or not, so for me its going to be worth not having mods for. My biggest problem with MC has always been poor world generation, and they fixed that in a single snapshot.