The latter is hardly playable at all it takes about 5 minutes from when I fire up the game to be able to actually start playing it (in comparison, D3 starts within about 30 seconds). You must understand that my decision is based on the fact that this product has had so many problems (some of which could have been easily avoided if Blizzard didn’t assume everybody only wanted to play online multiplayer games). That’s why I have to wait a bit and see if the mod makers do update their versions - and if they do not, at least I will not have a lot of old garbage on my hard drive when I decide to install D2R again.

However, I do not possess the skills required to make the mods others have created working in a new version of the game, no. Having modded IE games, Neverwinter Nights 1&2, Dragon Age 1&2, Morrowind and Oblivion (admittedly to a lesser extent), and in fact also D2R somewhat, I would say I am not completely lacking “basic mod(ding) knowledge”.

You are uninstalling because you lack basic knowledge how mods and game patches work? This is pretty much normal for any game.

Diablo 2 player 8 mod