You can no longer become the head of the companions as a pure mage or thief, and you actually has to work to become part of the elite. Adding time- and skill-requirements to the guild advancement : This mod is still is in development and only covers the companions, but again, it's such an easy fix for such a blatant problem. In other words, its just cosmetic, but it just makes so. With this little mod you can get a logical conclusion while keeping all the benefits of being the archmage yourself.

In the vanilla version, it made absolutely no sense that your character, who might not even be a really proficient mage to begin with, gets appointed as the new archmage without any qualifications.

The Ability to make Tolfdir the archmage at the end of the College questline : I mean, really, it's such a simple fix. However, as I was doing that, I stumbled upon a few interesting things: Mods that 'fix' things that doesn't make sense in the vanilla game in either a lore, gameplay or simple logical standpoint.

So, after a few months of hiatus I started playing Skyrim again, a time period which was just long enough that I had to patch up everything so that I could upgrade all my essential mods.

Skyrim pocket dimension mod