Wabbit, it seems to me that your statements could be summed up as "I don't like the magic mods, and I don't think enough people do to warrant bothering with them." Clearly, the mod pack team disagrees (as do I). That's not to say you're wrong or not entitled to that opinion, but I think that you may just have to live with the fact that some of their efforts go into developing stuff you don't personally like/want/need. But, that's the nature of any mod/mod pack, isn't it?
I refer you to the last statement in my post.
Just because I say a negative thing about something in a relevant conversation doesn't mean I dislike it.
I miss EE. I do. I adored it and I can't wait to see EE3 and I haven't yet gotten much experience out of TC to make an educated opinion about it.
Look, ultimately I couldn't give a toss what they do with their little modpack. They can build monuments to the phallic glory of FTB's e-peen or they can burn it to the damn ground and I couldn't give so much as a double take in it's direction, however, I was promis- No.
WE were promised that the mod, along with others, would be implemented into a
single modpack named FTB. I don't think I'm alone when I say I never expected another modpack sprung at us with half the major mods missing, let alone being told just to 'deal with it'.