maybe this has come up before now, but i think we should be able to mod our armors at the workbench maybe not light armor at least not drastically. but suppose you find schematics for hardened PA for certain ones and for like medium you could like change the colors and add straps and things that give you ok benefits like being able to add plates of kevlar to protect better against bullets and shiny pieces to protect against energy a lil better like say +5 dt for either but not both on the same armor the straps increase clip size or on hardcoe lighten weight of bullets in increments of a hundred or more and perhaps you could add things like hip pouches and stuff to add carrying cap like the satchel mod say +5-+15lbs while wearing that armor and for PA you can get better servos to increase speed like 5%-15% chemical hardening adds +5 or +10 dt and things like lighter plates sacrifice 3dt for +1 AGI or myomer musculature supercharger to increase fix some of the negatives from having PA or other heavy armor

if this sounds crazy fine but it might make some of the armors more balanced and its not far outside the realm of possibility since IRL hillbilly armor happens dosent work great really but its there

There is a mod called "powered power armor" which adds mods to power armors and a lot of awesome stuff.

You can modify armors in the Honest Hearts DLC. Look at the recipes in the list.

Custom armor would be he bomb.

Not power armor though