I will say, it depresses me that so many classes of motorsport, the modern WEC included, are so underrepresented by slapdash, subpar, often paywalled "Patreon" mods, and yet the "premium" modders (who make quality ****, no argument there) are making the choice to create duplicates of the same content we already have many times over.
I played ACC for the first time in a while last night, and it surprised me, actually. I hate the FFB, and still do to an extent, but turning off "Dynamic Damping" made a huge difference and the FFB has gone from "awful" to "below average". The visuals and physics are first class, minus some niggles. This game is now 8 bucks. I don't really know why there's a rush to release GT3 mods when ACC exists.
I love AC, and agree that there will never be another modding platform like this again - there's no way it happens now that so much corporate money is involved. However, the general AI speed and behavior in AC is probably an insurmountable issue across most tracks (minus Parri's revisions), and barring a huge coup by Ilja and co. to fix it, I do think we'll need a new platform to see major improvements there. Which is extremely important, obviously, as paid mods simply don't fill public servers.