Not really sure about balance, but Sperg is on Using most of Garfink leveled mods. HLE and DUEL, difficulty to adept, using better leveling for sperg and weight carry set to 100. Started a mage based character... Will share my insights about difficulty. Garfink tweaks on economics are good.
Partial answer : Not quite sure of procedure but when using LOOT one way to go around using Boss with ASIS and so on : uninstall BOSS, when running ASIS will ask for BOSS, point it to LOOT.exe, will run LOOT instead of BOSS and go on
as for Sperg, use the uncapper from better leveling sperg.ini. And yes at the start you have 1 perk in each tree and a part of it autolevels up. I personnaly start my attributes from 5 instead of 15. 5doesn't change the starting points but longer to level up.
Garfink, I am getting a message error when running asis.in error reading IncreasedSpawns.ini[factionExclusions],TMAFollowerFaction could not be resolved to a faction.ignoring... Is it normal ?
Garfink, could you post your config of ASIS, what to choose etc... Ouch if you remove the scrr instead of Ga (good choice I think) then you have to remove scrr edits from the morrowloot - step patch.
Dreadflopp, I hope you will sum all the changes made by garfink once he is done... to much work irl to follow his pace !! You could add a Garfink recommends....