First and foremost, Bannerlord in its state is still overall a foundation and frame, and the modding community is every other part of the house or castle. Getting that out of the way, mods..
There's a few troop overhauls, like AIO ones I miss, and some here and there, but generally I use what's available and don't really care, because I know what the modding life is like and I don't ask for anything. You make a mod to suit your own tastes, you make it for yourself first, at a minimum - and you have to deal with people constantly asking you for mod updates, people asking you if your mod is compatible with 75 other mods, people asking you if you will support the beta or stable patch at the time, people making a bug report on your mod and claiming its your mod when they are running 76 other mods, or they ask you to change something for them because they don't lik- you get it. Do this for years. It's annoying.
I plan on making my own troop overhaul using Amazon Body and other stuff, but I feel like if I do it, the comment section's getting nuked.