hum i’m not sure we are understanding each other here ^^
what do you change that you can’t change using the stackable way? i personnally think that for mod changing 1 aspect of the game like your’s (balance of dino) you don’t need to use the total conversion like that if people use a big total conversion mod (let’s say someone release a mod where they remove all the vanilla items/engram and make new player system with class. but don’t change the dino to do it they need to use the total conversion.) they can still stack your mod on it and gain your rebalance of the dino and their total conversion.
maybe you need to make a total conversion but i don’t see where you are “force” to do it from the description 