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I've unchecked "Automatically enable new mods".
What I though I was getting: New mods installed from the portal would not be 'active' till I set them that way.
What I actually got:

• Installed mods don't appear in the mod list till I restart the game after installing.
• Updating mods (active or not) will not change their description/version info till I restart.
• Updating active mods will not auto-restart when backing out of the mod list. (And a restart is needed to load the changes.)

Was I mistaken about the meaning of the option or am I trippin' bugs?

The mods list will never be updated with downloaded mods until you restart the game. That's how Factorio works when it comes to mods.

True, but, before I changed "Automatically enable new mods" the game would auto-restart whenever mods were updated or installed and you went back to the main menu.

With "Automatically enable new mods" turned off, should that still not happen?

MasterBuilder wrote:True, but, before I changed "Automatically enable new mods" the game would auto-restart whenever mods were updated or installed and you went back to the main menu.

With "Automatically enable new mods" turned off, should that still not happen?

No, it was changed so if you don't have auto-enable enabled it doesn't restart (since it does nothing except make them visually show in the GUI).