As the title says, it would be great if it were possible to activate without console commands since using them will disable achievements. Maybe there is a way to do it but if there is, it wasn't very apparent to me how to.

Hi there.

The mod is enabled by default (no need to type in any commands to make it work). The console commands are mainly aimed at other mods that may wish to disable this mod for some time.
I hope this answers your question.

u need to open the research tab the press esc. if u manually start a research it wont start the next one

Xen: mods disable achievements anyway.