Children mods break many things

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It would take too long to describe every problem that's been reported in detail, so to summarize: most (all?) of the child overhauls, such as RS Children and TKAAR, don't just change NPCs and facegens, they change the races of child NPCs or change attributes of the vanilla child races, which is one of the main sources of incompatibility right now.

What's compounding this is that the obvious workaround, which is to exclude child mods from EasyNPC, is difficult because DLCs and other mods edit children - so EasyNPC's mod could overwrite child edits even when used alongside those children overhauls.

The best answer right now might be to exclude child NPCs entirely, and make them opt-in via a command-line option. I'm not sure if any of the child mods work properly. Making it command-line would support development and testing while avoiding getting a lot of other people caught in this snare.