The problem of over-complicating things is real, but easily avoided. If we just decline the scripts the mod offers at the beginning of the campaign, and remove the one line of traits that triggers the civil war system, I don't think DLV would make things more complicated. It's all rather intuitive. I would be more than willing to personal provide the modified files that would remove not only the civil war system, but also the province title ancillaries if we so desire.

And the extra campaign scripts, which work very well for a normal singleplayer, might be too restrictive for this type of game where power is less centralized and people have certain expectations about the availability of action. These can be decline at the beginning of the campaign by Zim via pop-up, though I'd reccomend keeping the extra-agressive AI.

LTC Gold is an excellent mod, and beautifully simple and modest in scope. In fact, I would say it is more "vanilla" than the regular vanilla game, it's how the unmodded game is supposed to be. But I think the many added features of DLV, particularly the Heraldric ranks and the fact that characters that can live from 50 to 110, make it the superior choice.