While it is discouraging that they removed the forum search feature because of a (bad) bug, I think it is understandable why they did. The Nexus Mods developers didn't make the forum or the main site. The forum runs on a modified NodeBB instance, and the main site is a custom Ruby on Rails website. Since they didn't make the site, they don't have the knowledge of the codebase that the authors would. Which means it is more difficult to find and fix problems, which means it is more costly. GTA V modding is dying (IMO), it's an old game, and Nexus Mods doesn't want to spend money on a dying website. Implying the devs are incompetent though is just wrong. Who do you think added moderator roles and tools, automatic mod approvals using VirusTotal, dark mode (although they just modified community CSS styles), mod versioning, etc? None of that existed before Nexus Mods took over.
