Some way to test compatibility?

[RSA]

I really love playing Crusader Kings 2 with a bunch of mods, but I absolutely hate having to check the Steam workshop to figure out what version every mod is to make sure all the mods I wanna use are up to date, having to check what mods are compatible with what, having to click one mod, run the game, make sure it actually works, click another mod, run the game, make sure it actually works, and so on and so on all the way down lists of 100+ mods.

I've recently had a bunch of problems where one mod appeared to work, but then crashed the game only after finishing the ruler designer, and one mod ran perfectly fine, but messed up the UI so the game was unplayable due to being covered by windows that couldn't be closed conveniently and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to find these errors without going through the strenuous process I mentioned up above.

Has anyone come up with a better way to do this that is easy enough to use for a layman who just wants to enjoy the game? Please, I love this game so much but the number of hours I actually get to enjoy it gets cut so significantly by regularly dealing with modding issues.

 

[Romulien]

I hear your pain, unfortunately I don't think there's an easy solution.
Part of the solution is sharing knowledge to modders about maximizing mod compatibility (include only modified files in mod, load from separate files in folders, don't use replace_path, use event namespaces,... )
Many modding improvements haven been implemented in last patches, but unfortunately there are a few outstanding ones: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Modding_suggestions#Mod_compatibility
I don't know if Paradox could output some kind of report in startup logs on which mod files were conflicting on which mods (and which one won). But mods can also be incompatible in more subtle ways, that are hard to detect.