I recently bought a new laptop which can run Lexy’s Legacy of the Dragonborn modpack and set it up. It took me ~2 weeks to put everything together but it works and I’m enjoying the mods! Especially the museum which helps tremendously with my desire to hoard items.
It’s definitely possible to be a “support archer”. I haven’t played archer that much in LoTD so I can’t speak about the experience but the mods promise to tweak the archer stats so there are no more sneak kills.
What I realized about the followers is they can be great companions but also hindrances too. Some mod followers (looking at you, Sofia and Recorder) have some voicelines that they repeat ad nauseam and I did have to send Sofia away (the final string was a bug that undressed her in combat and I couldn’t force her to wear them again). Sometimes they get in the way and you can’t see what you want.
But still, it’s mostly fun playing with the followers and your idea is definitely a possibility if you are not going for the crit kills.