CACO has been pretty good for me so far. Cooking has been much more interesting for me. I was actually excited to find rare food ingredients in my travels, and I enjoyed trying out more complex recipes. Trying to use a cooking pot sometimes causes a crash though. In my playthrough I haven't done a ton of alchemy, but the alternate sorting names optional file has been amazing. I have two concerns on this side though. First, the mod adds a number of chemical effects and ingredients, but the added ingredients seem to be pretty rare. This has resulted in making some types of potions difficult because it is harder to find two ingredients now with the same effect. For example, I am having a hard time finding "damage health" ingredients at the lower alchemy levels. The second concern is pretty minor, but my self-made potions often don't stack properly in my inventory.