oh
my
god

brilliant
And that's basically my mental approach to modding: As "clean" as possible with the least amount of brute-force modding. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I dunno. Neither maybe. It's just the way I prefer to do things. With careful measurements and creative designs before hitting the tools.
I respect your approach, trying to follow it too. If thing you made looks like stock that means you did everything 100% right, keep that up mate