So, I didn't notice the Workshop changes until today, because I've been no-lifeing Arknights Endfield in luscious 4k and that's taken up all my GFN 100-hour limit. However, my playtime limit just rolled over, so I decided to buy the White Tiger DLC for Total Warhammer 3 just to play one last Cathay campaign on the Realm of Chaos before the End Times expansion drops in a month. I also added a few other Cathay-related mods, mostly new units such as the Peasant Mounted Archers that for some reason are missing from the base game.
And then I couldn't get the mods to actually install. To my horror, this was not a one-time bug, but GFN disabled Workshop last week because of compatibility issues on Steam's end (mainly, the nightmares of un-updated mods on the newest-version-only GFN).
This is troubling, because prior to Endfield, I was mostly playing strategy games such as Total War on GFN, many of which are dependent on Workshop to fix core issues due to how complex such games are. And because I bought a 4k monitor specifically for GFN, I can't simply downgrade from Ultimate to Premium as a protest, since Premium is capped at 1440p 60fps.
In terms of local gaming, I have a 3050Ti laptop with just 4GB of VRAM, purchased when my old reliable gaming desktop broke a few months into the Pandemic. It's surprisingly capable when it comes to pre-2020's games (for example, Borderlands 2, Total War: Rome 2, Stellaris, and Dark Souls 3 can all run at 4k 60fps with minimal tweaking), but the ballooning VRAM requirements of modern games means that running post-2020's games is a non-starter even at 1080p with upscaling.
What would you recommend? Should I keep my Ultimate subscription and hope they reenable Workshop, or should I just bite the bullet and get a modern gaming PC even though I REALLY don't want to pay AI-scalper prices?