Its mostly bug issues at this point because this is an old game and all people are asking about is a problem they have. I've played through many games with TSLRCM both before and after being put on steam workshop, and I don't recall ever having an issue with it, beyond needing to edit some files to get it working way back when.

Mostly people with problems bother to come to game forums. People without problems tend to just play the game and enjoy it without ever even thinking about the forums.
In my experience TSLRCM works just fine as long as you don't have any conflicting mods installed. I haven't played with 1.9 yet though, but I guess it should be fine.

Differentiating between the bugginess of vanilla and the bugs that are actually part of this mod isn't something new players are going to be able to do. It doesn't help that the world at large can't be bothered search for answers to old questions before they ask for help, especially when PC gaming is heavily diverse in user experiences due to countless hardware/software configurations.

In other words, don't trust the bulk of the steam community about anything negative most of the time. I would have missed on several games that I really enjoyed (without issue) if I had assumed the vocal minority was anything but the minority.

Alright thanks guys i'll give it a try.