I am stoically awaiting the porting of the Skyrim CBBE body mods and Skyrim Beautiful followers mod so that I can recreate Lydia to carry my burdens. I haZ burdens..
Or I will be refreshing my old and neglected 3D graphics skills to port them myself.
Fawkes was the best pack mule I ever had. Especiallty with Broken Steel installed, which made his (and Dogmeat’s) health insanely high due to a typo in the amount of health creatures gain per level.
I might get one of those mods that lets you have a pack brahmin follower which can’t attack, but can carry about 1000 pounds and has huge defenses.