I too am annoyed by this change. I would rather do it the old way and use folders under the mods folder like we used to be able to so. This change is not very user friendly and a step backwards. Surely this is an easy option to write into the program.
Hi There, Long time user.
I used to be able to put my mods in a subfolder of the mods folder like 1.12.1 for each version. but now 1.14.4 does not seem to work like this any more. Is this by design or a problem with the new loader?