Honestly just of curiosity, why is Hexcasting in McE2?

[unique fern]

First of all, no hate towards the mod or the mod makers. I am asking this with no ill intent.

After I have watched multiple hours of the YouTube tutorials (there aren't many on the mod), reading countless forum posts on their website and their Discord Server I have come to the conclusion, that you can basically do everything this mod offers in McE2 with a fraction of the effort you'd otherwise have to put into Hexcasting. I am studying CyberSec. so I have no problem with understanding the basics of the mod and how to "program" spells etc., but this just seems to be an ill fit for McE2, especially for people having no experience programming and the only really useful spells that I could find in my research where flight, giving an arrow enough velocity to one shot the wither and mining 3x3...

Thus my question, once again, with no ill intent, why is Hexcasting in McE2?

[slate abyss]

Because it's cool

[unique fern]

Like what am I supposed to do with stuff like this

[slate abyss]

That's basically it

It's definitely not meant for everyone

[unique fern]

Ok, I agree with it totally looking awesome...but I just don't get the use of it

[fair kiln]

For the most part it's just very interesting, early creative flight within an area does make it very useful for building early on

Atleast in my experience so far, overall just neat things you can do that generally tend to not be worth the effort compared to other mods

[mint spoke]

it can do a bunch of things, its Spell patterns are the main way you can use it to interact with the world and do things.
if you're familiar with PSI at all, they draw on some of the same fundamentals due to their nature, meaning that many possibilites are shared between them, though of course the cost of such possibilities differs drastically.