I think the thing that lead to it being banned was that somehow the big machines were immune to beacon overload.
Can you confirm if it's the case?
If it's not, I'll bring it up when Earandel starts being active again.
The stated reason for my mod is to handle upgrade techs, general mod balancing is a bit out of scope. There always will be another mod to change, so that's a rabbit hole in not sure I'm willing to go into. If it's small changes, I can try doing them.
For early spidertrons, I use the insecctitronics mod. I find it works quite well. Also, atm other spidertron mods can end up not working very will with se if they try to use the vanilla leg making function, since somewhy se overwrites it with a global function of its own...