Sure, just don’t link things together properly and they won’t cook! Haha.
My suggestion is really an ease-of-use enhancement I guess, and a means at trying to help those who haven’t really done much in the DevKit yet and don’t know about references, the Reference Viewer or really how to use it effectively and things like that, to try and get them to go digging a little bit as with no official documentation or really laid out and extensive but digestible tutorials or overview of what does what, what this or that means, when this should be used over that or what the DevKit does or can do(and I think that really should be better suited to WC arranging as there’s a lot to cover with the Editor and no one person knows what WC do as they use it every day to a much more intensive extent than modders), etc., etc… Hell, or even to just provide a subtle reminder if there’s a discrepancy to any who know how to do all this correctly the first time through as we can always make mistakes and forget about things.
I think something like a check in the process - if it’s possible - to count the files in a mod folder when it goes to cook, goes through the cooking process and spits out a warning or something along the lines of ‘x’ amount of files found, ‘x’ amount actually cooked on the “Job Successful” pop-up when cooking completes would be a good start to making things a little friendlier.
-WM