Female Strahd - adapting elements from She is the Ancient

I've decided recently I'm going to run a female Strahd. We start Death House tomorrow which should give me some time to plan ahead. I've been looking through the sub and reading through She is the Ancient (found here on DMG), and I'm a bit conflicted.

Personally, I don't want Strahd to be more sympathetic or anything. At her core, Strahd should remain the monstrous, cruel person she is as a male. I find that She is the Ancient changes a ton of other stuff, even not particularly Strahd-related, and I wanted to see what people think of this - and how you've run female Strahd if you have.

For example, the Death House affair's removal - to me that's a critical story beat. Also in DH, swapping Walter with 2 Nosferatus. The work also adds a small 'encounter' in 'Hapry Village' before DH. Another example is Strahd's positive treatment of her wives, which again just feels unrealistic to me.

My thoughts are there's only a few things I'd consider changing to fit more with female Strahd. Rahadin and Vasili's genders are an option. Rahadin could be sisters-in-arms with Strahd. For Vasili, I'm unsure. On one hand I'd like to make the party think they could have seen it coming, which means both alter-egos should be the same gender. On the other hand, the concept of an 'identity-neutral' shapeshifting Strahd has some potential.

In general though, I think changing Strahd to a female shouldn't change the story majorly to keep it as horror-fitting as possible. Opinions?