Sorry for the double post:
Sometime ago, after playing with this for a while, I decided to remove IEP from my modlist.
It felt to me that this mod's ships and weapon were heavily favored in markets and fleets, to the detriment of other weapons' availability (In comparison, after removing IEP I used the free V/RAM space of my aging PC to put in several different Ship and Weapon mods instead, and none of them felt over-represented in-game)
And of the weapons themselves, most of them are intentionally cheap and under-powered, overpowered, or just plain fill a niche a little too perfectly, all while being aesthetically looking like slightly off-brand vanilla weapons, which by itself would not be that bad (several other mods do that too, but better IMO), if not for the next point:
Autofit loves really, really loves them, particularly the cheap ones as I said in the previous post, or that AoE gun that most of time is range mismatched with other weapons, and other cases. And when the game shoves them on me like this with all their flaws, I get a bit annoyed.
Heck, this mod made me actually appreciate Alex's statements that "Less is More", that "Not every niche should've it's own weapon" and so on, which no other mod did until now.