As a 2.5 year tootle puffer, I don't understand the fascination over the gear out there, I don't even know what a mech mod is.
But I offer you this: When someone approaches me, mentions that someone yesterday blew off half their lips vaping, and asks me how I can feel safe using mine, I ask them if they are concerned about driving their car to work because a top-fuel dragster blew up at the drag strip last night.
This is getting to be more like selling those same dragsters at lots of small shops in town to common folks cheap and pretty with bad gas and all season radials. To drive to work every day.