You should play without PFAA (also COG) and UB (those have no benefit to the gameplay, actually they are a bit problematic nowadays), aswell edit the configs to ease the gameplay to your liking.
I've grown to like PFAA, though I can see how UBC might conflict with it. Are you willing to clarify what you meant about them being problematic?
Also, in case anyone else is still following this thread, I've got a new list of mods I'm considering in another thread in the off-topic section and more feedback on it would be nice.