I have a question, why couldn't you do both? Have a native launcher like we have now, have the mods still on the forums and still have a base on curse? I'm new to everything here, but reading others comments and arguments, I don't see why you just couldn't have both up and meet everyone in the middle. I keep reading this is better than that and that's better than this but with mods on both the forums and curse as well as the native launcher and curse launcher.
The only issue I see is that people 'may' stop coming to the forums over time like you see in MC. Other options have been put out that would do the same. I'm fine with coming here, just wish there was an easier "lazier" way to see when mods updated. (I still play vanilla).
Just a thought.
Thanks to everyone for everything you do!