Yeah, like if they manage to keep the modpack lightweight enough, I'm totally down. I prefer the deeply modded experience, so my vote isn't coming from that preference. I don't think that the runners of the server will be able to make a pleasing modpack to everybody without making it unrunnable on weaker laptops. Nothing wrong with this, I don't want to make it seem like I'm saying anything bad about the people who would be running this server, because I think it's super cool that they're doing this in the first place and don't wanna sound like I'm trashing on them because I love them. It's just that they have so much they have to balance out, between all the different versions they could choose, the tons of mods that are extremely desirable but not performance friendly, but also the birth of Lithium and Sodium in future versions making that a possible route, albeit with a lot less mods. There's a lot they have to pick from doing a modpack. They don't just have to pick what mods they want, they have to pick between 3 different mod loaders with the benefits and downsides of them all, and all with different mods. While developing a Vanilla+ server would be much easier work. You could just grab plugins as you needed them, no deliberation on how it runs for other people or any of those issues.

I will also say this though, if I end up logging onto the modded server from my old-ish laptop and have no major performance issues, I'll totally eat my hat. If the people running this server manage to pull it off, I'd be super happy and impressed with a great low weight modpack I could play with other Hexbearers, sounds like the perfect gaming experience. Like if I didn't think it was just too much to ask of the great people running this server, my vote would probably be for modded, but I feel like an asshole requesting a lightweight modded experience with how poorly Minecraft is coded.