Jet: "Paris is in France." Zilav: "Berlin is in Germany." You are both correct. Yes, the masters are loaded regardless of load order, making LOOT much less necessary than BOSS was in previous games. Now you won't have mods crashing out because the masters are now lower in the load order. I am surprised to find this change, as I stopped playing Skyrim in the period where it was necessary to organise it if you wanted to play et al. But people also use LOOT as Zilav is outlining - for convenience, making sure that the majority of changes are effective. Both points are valid. This argument, reading both of your points, is going to soon boil down to "Is it necessary or is it convenient, in which case may I make the suggestion that "to each user their own"? Or as I put it in one of my first posts here;