I will not be making this mod standalone as well; the whole point of Skins Factored is so skin mods don't have to do all the work themselves and thereby making every skin mod compatible with every other mod (and in the cases where it isn't, only requiring one mod to update to be fixed).
Would you mind telling me what issues you have with Skins Factored? I tried to make it as unobtrusive and configurable as possible, but if there's anything i can improve i'd love to know!