Core MODs that I use, I generally wont upgrade Minecraft until they are updated to the new version.
Botany Pots
Botany Trees
Builders Addition
Diagonal Fences
Double Doors Mod
Easy piglins
Easy villagers
Elevatorid
GUI Compass
Paintings ++
Patchouli
Pedestals
Redstone Extras
Redstone gauge
Supplementaries
Sword display
Tiny Mob Farm
Uppers
Waystones
Wetstone

Great MODs to have but not gamechanging for me. I can update and wait for them to be added later.
Actually Useful Smithing Table
Actually Useful Stonecutter Alternate
Advancement_Book
Alexs MOBs
Ambient World
Antique atlas
ArmorPoser
Better animals plus
Better End Forge
Biomes O Plenty
Burger mod
Caged mobs
Caves And Cliffs Backport
MrCrayfish's Gun Mod
Chimes
Colt Cosmetic Armor Mod
Croptopia
Decorative Blocks
Exotic birds
Extra lights
Fairylights
Farmers Delight
Feywild
Forbidden Arcanus
Gilded armor
Golden hopper
Guns without roses
Horizontal panes
Hole filler mod
Hud Compass
Ice and Fire
Immersive Portals
Inspirations
Item zoom
JEI
Journey map
Krays Candles
Lava Clear View
MCW bridges, doors, roofs, trapdoors, windows
Metal barrels
Morev anilla armor
Mowzies mobs
Nefs Medieval Pub
Pirate hats
Pirates And Looters Mod
Pain in the Glass
Project vibrant journeys
Quark
Scuba gear
Simply Improved Terrain
Spiders 2.0
Structure Expansion
Subterainian wilderness
The Mandalorian Mod
The Sacred Grove
Torchmaster
Treemendous
Upgraded Netherite
Whisperwoods
Wizards staff