I know the purpose of these mods seems to be to make the games much harder. I also know many people have claimed having a dragon player makes the game too easy. With this in mind, I can see that someone might get the idea to ditch the dragon as a player character.PLEASE DON'T GET RID OF THE DRAGON!
I know this is my son's favorite MM game just because it contains a dragon. Not because the dragon is easy, but just because he loves dragons so much. I don't think he's the only one out there! Plus, I happened to like the implied storyline that the dragonhunters were not necessarily the good guys.
I have to admit I also liked the idea that even traditionally "evil" characters would help out to save their world from a catastrophe. And that even traditionally "good" characters were not lily white. Most fantasy and RPG is done from a very black/white good/evil standpoint. MM8 was the exception. I'd hope that could be preserved, although I know it will be hard to do.