The most popular mods are designed to help the game with stability, or increase the resolution of certain textures, but there are others that change the game in strange ways, or simply add a feature that you wished Bethesda had implemented to begin with. If you don’t find the children creepy enough for your liking, mod the game so they all wear inexplicable clown make-up.
If you’re too impatient to level up your lock picking, simply mod the game to give you an unbreakable lock pick. PC gamers, however, get the added bonus of being able to mod their games to their liking. Skyrim is a great game regardless of which platform you’re playing it on.