I agree, but am still of the same mind that there are still issues to be resolved. Playing a 1.7.10 pack right now, played for 2-3 hours and got my smeltery up and woops, I can make casts and cast parts, but ingots? nuh uh. Nothing in config shows any issue and most likely it's maybe a minetweaker issue or something, but I'm realizing with the hit and miss of these new packs that nothing much has changed since 1.6.4 and 1.7.10 in that the pack MAKER has a LOT of responsibility to ensure everything works right, mods coexist, patching, etc... Especially at this stage. I think people are under the impression that remove the itemID conflict problem and everything is plug and play, which it isn't. Hell, forge figured out the itemid issue almost a year ago with the warning box that pops up saying items conflict and hey, here's some ranges of item ID's you can use....
Oh, and I'm still having issues in this 1.7.10 pack with things not stacking even if same item ID / name and meta. Something is screwy out there still for sure.
I've played some packs that were meticulously put together, and some I think, hobbled together with some slime and zombie sinews.