Is it possible play the PvE content no base?

A few friends and I have been thinking about trying out Conan Exiles again after a few years. While we enjoyed the PvE combat & exploration side of the game, the very grindy base building aspect of the game took a lot of the fun out of the experience. In the end we all just lost interest in gathering yet more crap and quit. Same thing that happens to us in every survival game we play.

I know the game has had a major revamp recently. So that got me wondering. Could we just cut out the base building and still have access to all of the PvE content in the game? Like killing all of the world bosses and exploring the whole map. And if not realistically possible in the vanilla game are there any mods that would facilitate this play style?