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I have already downloaded and used more or less around 6200+ mods from Nexus alone. I consider you one of the best modders and yet, I only found out about this project now and I know why. A strange name. This project looks really good, it's all in one, too bad you didn't finish it. In 2020, you mentioned that you are slowly working on it. Are you still working on it? May I ask why you didn't finish it?
The monolithic all-in-one approach didn't work. I'm not a very good project manager, especially if I'm managing myself. I was jumping around implementing bits and pieces of features, then moving on to tinker a little bit with another, and another, which was terrible for making any real progress, especially when these features were intended to make major sweeping changes to entire sections of the base game, and really needed focused work being done to them to get them finished. I did try fixing this by making the decision to break the mod up into smaller individual mods that could just focus on one thing and be installed piecemeal instead, but this of course wasn't the only problem.
I also switched from developing plugins off of F4SE to CommonLibF4. I had already done it for Skyrim development (moving from SKSE to CommonLibSSE), because CommonLib is generally a lot nicer to use than the script extender source for plugin development when you're writing code, and it comes with built in plugin-game version independence via Address Library. Unfortunately, this was also a lot of work on its own, especially a lot of reverse engineering work- some of which I had already done and could redo pretty quickly, but some that I needed to do from scratch, and I was much worse at it 5 years ago than I am now.
Another major blocker was interface edits. A lot of features needed a lot of UI work in order to be properly supported the way that I wanted them to be, and I really hate doing that UI work. You're left pretty blind a lot of the time, Scaleform doesn't have any kind of debug tools in the release game, and even with logging from F4SE, the most you get on errors tends to be "null" in the log, with no additional context. Working with the Pip-Boy UI was also a bit of a nightmare, Bethesda makes about as much use of the screen real estate as they can in the base game, there's not much space to add things to. No mod that I know of does it in a way that I think looks good yet, and I was struggling to figure out an alternative solution myself back then too. I actually started experimenting with the idea of doing something like Baka Fullscreen Pip-Boy around ~2020 to try and solve that, but again, I was worse at development then than I am now.
The biggest problem though is at some point, in a playthrough of Fallout 4 that I was doing for fun, the game kind of just clicked for me. I don't think the systems are perfect (Starfield's evolution of Fallout 4's leveling system solves a lot of problems, though), but I don't think plastering skills over top of them would really fix anything, which is kind of the core feature everything is built around in PM. I mostly tend to make mods that I want to use in my playthroughs myself, and it's hard to find the motivation to keep working on a project if I wouldn't want to use it. Some of the features I had planned have been spun off into their own mods, and more may be in the future.
I recently came across PEACE and WARS mods, some parts are similar to your ideas.
Maybe someday you will finish the mod, maybe not, in any case, I wish you many more great mods and success in life.