This collection consists of mods (NOT created by me) which in my opinion enhances the game without taking away too much of the vanilla experience. So no new blocks or major overhauls, but quality of life stuff, scripts and adding more encounters to the game so there is some stuff to do other than just building.

You could use this collection as a new player, but just be warned you most likely won't ever want to play without these mods once you tried them.

Probably since I either haven't tried it yet, or it changes the game a bit too much to still consider it "vanilla".

I have bad experiences with speed mods back in the Early Access period, and haven't tried them since. Physics got wonky and shooting weapons while going fast usually resulted in destroying your own ship since projectiles didn't have speed inheritance. I might try them again one day, but I'm not sure if they should be considered vanilla breaking or not.