So,

I feel the need to provide a little bit of context to my confusion because I have been using YARW and YARW Clan (and together with YAWE, no less) without issue ever since the first update after the Solaris DLC dropped but without the Essentials mod. In fact, I could have sworn that when I first installed YARW, there was no mention of the Essentials being...well, essential.

However, having found out about the essential prerequisite that I have been missing all this time, I naturally went to install it but when I tried activating the Essentials mod in-game, the mod selector kindly informed me that Essentials was being overridden by YAML. Since I do actually read the description, I immediately hesitated because it says right there on the tin in shouty-CAPS that nothing should override this mod. Admittedly, YAML claims to only be overriding some DLC 6 mech loadouts, while once active Essential overrides some MG-related assets in YARW, but it is not supposed to be overridden by anything whatsoever at all.

So, in your professional opinion, what should I do? Should I activate the Essentials despite some overrides by YAML because it's just that important? Or am I just wasting your valuable time here because we all know that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'?

(Just to be clear, I am not using any load-order manipulators of any kind. I just download mods from Steam and Nexus, activate them in-game and that's it.)