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I'm contemplating building a tool to do this. Do you think people would use it?

There's already an awesome mod addon for Mod Manager, called Mod Manager: Server. Effectively it let's you generate a <yourServer>.ini file for use with your server. It has all the same options as the Mod Manager, and works wonderfully.

What kind of server is your dedicated machine? Ubunut, Windows, etc? Are you running using a container such as Docker? The purpose for the question is that, in some cases, scripts are run automatically when the server restarts to update the mods, in other cases it's a manual process.