(I don't know if this kinda thing is allowed so sorry if it isn't)

I've made a simple little tool which generates a much more simple config file for your mods, and can then read this config and update your getmods.php for you

There's a lot of information on the github link all here: https://github.com/smt923/neomerge

I'm not sure how useful it'll be, but it works well for me, and I much prefer the simple format than the php file to edit, if there's any issues let me know, but it seems to work fine for me - my main use right now is having a bunch of mods loaded and just using comments to enable/disable them without messing around with rearranging the getmods file all the time, but it can just make the basic mod management easier for people too