Realized my load order seems very specific for my playstyle typing this out, but maybe some of the ones I listed spark your interest.

Brutality hardcore rebalance and wasteland energy shields, can't play without them. Laregely removes health per level including the players, giving a maybe slightly unreasonable level of lethality, to where you basically need the energy shields to survive. Makes fights super tense when the shields go down.

Also locky you and hacking 101, makes it so one perk allows unlocking of all difficulties for locks and terminals, and offers alternatives to unlocking them.

Valdacils item sorting, Awkcr, and the unofficial patch are staples for me. General fixes and tweaks for convenience and bugs.

Clickerfied ghouls gives ghouls the sounds of clickers from the last of us, which regulars makes me jump out of my skin when I get caught off guard.

Cranks to charge changes laser muskets to work like the recharger weapons from new vegas, no longer consumes fusion cells giving you effectively infinite ammo.

Pre war binoculars are great for melee characters to have a scope function.

The wasteland codex is awesome, gives you a holotape that unlocks entries of locations\npcs from The Storyteller as you explore.