The mod is fantastic, the idea itself is something that IMO should be present in the vanilla game, but the balance is just insane right now and it's all due to the fact that you have to deal with enemies with random 'armories' which in turn end up in your coffers, not only in your armory but also in your inventory, so even if you completely ignore your armory and never get in there to take things out, you still end up with absolutely insane gear EXTREMELY fast, like within the first two months of a playthrough, you might already be rocking tier 6 gear, let alone have enough in your armory to completely equip even the most basic or recruits with insane gear as well

I think having the option to only having the player having access to the armory feature would not only help on that front, because no more looting random ass tier 6 armor from killing tier 4 troops, but also would fix the 'lag' issues that, though are pretty easy to ignore when playing mostly vanilla, but holy moly when you're using mods that add a lot of parties to the overworld like CAW or other, you end up with an INSANE amount of stutters (even on my top tier PC, can't imagine how people on an average laptop would feel)
Of course there's always the option of trying to balance it all, but that'd probably be far more work than simply allowing us to use a 'lite' version that do away with most of the noise and instead keep the main interesting point of the mod, and I understand that this means that enemy troops will end up less 'diverse' as well, and it sucks, but there's hundreds of mods that touch that already by providing each of said troops with multiple sets of armor and weapons

Either way, absolutely fantastic mod