Got nothing really to add to that or challenge.
Yep, I am personally just a bit more comfortable with the convience of Steam, at the moment... but oh yes, when Gabe announces he's retiring, I'm backing up everything.
I dunno, I mod (as in, make mods, as well as configure combos of other ones, hell I even mod mods lol) a lot, and I've just... got my own method, at this point, would be hard to fully describe lol.