I love Bethesda’s games, I play them all the time. But as of late, they’ve been milking them more and more with small, useless updates to push paid content. And after I spent a month perfecting my modded load order, they produced yet another useless application update that breaks EVERYTHING and now I have to start all over (which means hours of uninstalling mods and clearing the entire game directory).
You make it very hard to love you, Bethesda.


Steam does not allow it.
There are ways to do it… for example by setting the appmanifest to read-only. You can also download old versions through steam console.