[ik that it will be a complete rewrite of JEI but maybe could be a good idea to be considered on a future]
I think that probably any mods use mods like JEI and some of them have made some custom jei categories or other stuff
But today , where many other mods are only made using datapacks it could be good to allow to "manage" jei stuff like jei categories / configuring IO validation / relationing jei categories with minecraft recipe types etc.. just using json (datapacks) and resourcepacks
Also for real modmaker they could use datagen to create everything at same as now
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[ik that it will be a complete rewrite of JEI but maybe could be a good idea to be considered on a future]
I think that probably any mods use mods like JEI and some of them have made some custom jei categories or other stuff
But today , where many other mods are only made using datapacks it could be good to allow to "manage" jei stuff like jei categories / configuring IO validation / relationing jei categories with minecraft recipe types etc.. just using json (datapacks) and resourcepacks
Also for real modmaker they could use datagen to create everything at same as now