Just mainly use STEP as a foundation/guideline. Believe it's good base for good mods to have in your game. However, I don't use all of them. Nor am I personally afraid to runup TESVEdit, check for conflicts, and edit the ESPs or make a patch if possible/reasonable, and merge plugins to cut down ESPs. For example, better disease descriptions overrides one of the numerical values made by Unofficial Skyrim Patch back to vanilla. So, I carried over USKP value to Beter Disease Descriptions. But, I haven't checked out STEP's patches to even know if that is remedied. But, anyways, I was suprised STEP decided on adding in Better Males. On a personal taste I prefer XCEs, but I think its addition isn't without warrent though. While I disagree removing XCE, it's just going to boil down to personal opinions. Out of curiosity, what kind of Female Overhaul do you plan on implementing?