It seems a little demanding to make everyone else download it just so you can force people to see your tail. I like that you want to show off a specific look, that's pretty cool, but to make everyone who doesn't want it in their pack either manually change a config or delete it every time the mod pack updates... Ugh. I encountered the same thing with the Hats mod. That one was a pain to remove.
That's usually why I ask pack authors to install it. It's somewhat embarrassing for me because there are people I play with who do not really understand why it's so important to me to look like my intended species but it is extremely important to me and has been ever since I started playing minecraft and even in pretty much every game I play where custom characters is an option. I really wish this was appreciated enough to be a vanilla feature (as well it should be by now >_>) but I doubt that will ever happen because such a feature would likely turn people off to the game. (See the drama from the original moreplayermodels thread for reference.)
I really do not like playing as humans, I feel the option should always exist otherwise and it's really not that much to ask. A lot of packs already include it by default and the nice thing is that it is also compatible with a lot of mods moreplayermodels isn't, so there are no conflicts that I know of. (And I use a lot of mods.)
I know there are people who don't really value purely cosmetic or aesthetic things out there (direwolf20 uses the default skin, I guess it works for him) and assume that if something has no utilitarian purpose it has no value, I have to somewhat respect this for the sake of my friendships but in this instance it really is something very important to me and I probably couldn't explain why to someone who doesn't also value it since it has a lot to do with personal ideals and identity projections...
...Plus, this is a mod about restoring nature, and that usually puts me in mind of spirits, animals, elves, or things generally much closer to nature than humans are, so for the sake of roleplay that would fit a lot better, at least to me. (Plus if it weren't hinted that endermen were responsible for this, I would assume steves were.)
