I'm a total newfag to modding this game even though I got it in 2013. I missed the boat on the heyday for modding, it seems. Is it worth rolling back to play the iconic ones?

I really want a magic playthrough, throwing around spells and doing cool magic shit like terraria or noita - Thaumcraft 4 seems ideal, but I don't want to lose everything that's been added since 2014 or whatever. Is there anything more recent you guys like? I keep looking myself and all the modpacks I see on forge have typos and are cobbled together by teenagers. I just wanna be a wizard.