I ended up backing up all my mods other than the "Devious Desires" related mods, then deleted all mods in the mods folder, I then re-downloaded all "required mods" listed on main page and installed them into the "Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods" folder, then put the contents of this mod into the same folder, I also put a copy of the mod_data folder in "Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4" folder, just to be safe. with this everything is now working. all I had to do after was put all the backed up mods back into the "Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods" folder. I hope this helps, I'm not sure I was very clear lol.
In short I put "mod_data" in Mods folder and "The Sims 4" main folder, and this worked for me.