I started playing FO4 with mods....and i gotta say; being the minutemen general before was kinda crappy before. Very rare patrol spawns, the flare gun summons lv1 cannon fodder that cant even take a hit, and artillery that couldn't hit anything. I felt like I was the only proper member of the Minutemen.
Then I found We Are The Minutemen on the nexus (there's a larger rehaul mod on there, but i just wanted vanilla+ mods right now) and i gotta say, I'm a lot more immersed in being the general now. The moment it hit me was when I fast traveled back to Sanctuary and passed a 4 man Minutemen patrol leaving through the main gate and the leader of the patrol stopped and said "Hey General." Such a small thing, but I actually felt like a leading member of a faction for once. Maybe not in a direct way, more like a founding godfather kinda way, but it definitely felt better then before.
The patrols scale in gear with level too, so in the beginning they only had minutemen outfits and pipe guns/short lasmuskets, but towards the mid game, I started seeing combat armor and medium leather/metal. This carries over to the spawned reinforcements from the flaregun too, they're all scaled and have the correct perks and stuff.
This mod deserves to become canon. If you like the Minutemen like me, go get it. Turn the Minutemen into an actual faction.