To me, the Steam Workshop has always seemed like a neglected aspect of everyone's default PC game launcher. It's useful for installing a couple of must-haves, but it doesn't hold a candle to more full-fledged software like Mod Organizer 2 or the Vortex Mod Manager. The fact you can't adjust your load order—meaning you can't ensure that certain mods are loaded before other mods that depend on them—pretty much makes the system useless for managing big mod lists all by itself.
But someone at Valve must have heard my gripes, because a hot new Workshop update just hit the Steam beta client ahead of a full release. Detailed in a post on the Steam Workshop blog, the update means Steam's mod management tools are better able to hold their own against the other mod managers of the world, even if it's still not all of the way there.
If you install the Steam beta client update, which you can find in the Interface section of Steam's settings, you'll find that you can now easily adjust the load order for mods you've subscribed to in the Steam Workshop by clicking and dragging them around in the properties section of your modded games.
You can also see how much space your various mods take up, enable and disable them individually, and even hit a button to make Steam try to find the optimum order to load them in automatically (basically doing what the LOOT tool for Bethesda games does, if you're familiar with that). I've had a mixed experience with tools like that in the past. The more mods you have, the more likely they are to slip up and load one of them in a place they shouldn't. But it's a nice thing to have, especially for people new to modding or who are only using a few mods in the first place.
Perhaps my favourite feature,
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