Enigmatica6 VS Enigmatica2Expert

The first modpack I ever played was enigmatica 6 expert. But i think plain enigmatica 6 would be better for your first time! https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/enigmatica6

There are tons of modpacks for 1.16.5 and up. You should try out Modpack Index if you have some mods you know you want and don't know which packs have them (I recommend sorting by number of downloads to help filter out the chaff). You didn't really give any rules so how about FTB Endeavour as a decent choice for a general kitchen sink pack on 1.16. You could also try FTB One if you want something really new, AKA 1.19. Enigmatica 6 is another high-quality 1.16 kitchen sink you could check out.

The one thing that I absolutely take issue with is that Enigmatica packs are objectively high effort and have been polished and improved over a huge amount of time - you can go look at the GitHub pages for each of them and see just how many commits there are and when they were made. For E2E, there are nearly 1k commits over five years - (https://github.com/EnigmaticaModpacks/Enigmatica2Expert/commits/master) - that's far more than most packs. Enigmatica 6 has over 10,000 commits (https://github.com/EnigmaticaModpacks/Enigmatica6/commits/master), which is the most I've seen in any modpack so far (and here I was proud of my ~1.3k in Valhelsia 3).

E6 IP & link - 91.208.92.218 https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/enigmatica6

Enigmatica comes in two flavors (four if you count 1.12.2 and 1.16.5). Did you play the regular version of Enigmatica, or the Expert version?

If you want a really good kitchen-sink, you gotta jump into Enigmatica 6. It's unbelievably well made and works super well. You can check it out here.

Perhaps try Enigmatica 6 or All the Mods 6

Perhaps FTB University or FTB Academy may be good as a first introduction to modded. For something slightly less aimed at walking beginners through, I would recommend Cuboid Outpost or Enigmatica 6. For a difficult pack, Multiblock madness could also fit quite well

Perhaps try All the Mods 6 or Enigmatica 6

I've done some research and these modpacks seem to (mostly) be what I'm looking for: Stoneblock 2 and Enigmatica 2: Expert - E2E.

The one thing that I absolutely take issue with is that Enigmatica packs are objectively high effort and have been polished and improved over a huge amount of time - you can go look at the GitHub pages for each of them and see just how many commits there are and when they were made. For E2E, there are nearly 1k commits over five years - (https://github.com/EnigmaticaModpacks/Enigmatica2Expert/commits/master) - that's far more than most packs. Enigmatica 6 has over 10,000 commits (https://github.com/EnigmaticaModpacks/Enigmatica6/commits/master), which is the most I've seen in any modpack so far (and here I was proud of my ~1.3k in Valhelsia 3).

Enigmatica 2: Expert

E2E's MemoryTester config recommends 6144 MiB by default, so something was definitely broken.

IP & link - 178.170.47.74:25566 https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/enigmatica2expert The Servers are hosted on dedicated servers as per below - CPU - Ryzen9 3900X RAM - 128GB @ 2600mhz SSD - 1Tb NvMe Please join the Discord to be whitelisted: https://discord.gg/W8QMWPECny

E2E IP & link - 91.208.92.218 https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/enigmatica2expert

Enigmatica 2: Expert or Enigmatica 2: Expert Skyblock are your best bet. These have really well-designed gating and progression, but they are expert packs, meaning that they’re a lot more difficult than your average modpack. However, they’re also a lot more forgiving than a lot of other expert packs, such as Nomnifactory or GTNH.