Load order to make the game harder to balance some OP mods I've long been considering?

[InDarkestNight]

I've long been wanting to try out Enai's v++ mods. Never have gotten around to it though due to the excessive back catalogue of mods I've been needing to test out. Since then though I've heard those mods have a problem in that they unbalance the game, Odin especially. I've heard of people wiping the floor with everything at level 10 on legendary difficulty.

Of course, a simple way to fix this would be to install other mods that increase the difficulty of the game. I however don't know where to begin with that. I know about Higher Level Enemies, but that's it. I think Mihail's creatures are infamous for being OP. The Monster Mod is also infamous for balance issues. Deadly Dragons can be used to tune dragons to whatever you need them to be (been thinking about trying that one two, though I never did like how it makes dragons kill themselves, or how the models for the dragons it adds are in really bad need of an update).

Obviously, I don't really know much about increasing the difficulty of the game. In particular I would probably need the early game to be the same so I don't get owned by stuff until I get some of those OP perks and spells.

How could I do this? And keep in mind, I'm planning on doing this to help nerf Vokrii, Odin, Morninstar, Evenstar, Scion, and Growl. And yes, I've also thought about running Simonrim's mods instead, but half of them aren't available for LE and besides, I don't know if they're much better in terms of NOT making the game stupid easy.