I like climbing packs with one large compartment and "top pocket".

I start by pushing my down air mattress, down sleeping bag, down coat, and foam pillow into the bottom of the pack. Then gloves hats and tent. On top of that goes my stove and cookware, not in any kind of cases, and the food on top and maybe rain gear above the food. Everything is put in, in the order in which it will be needed. Sometimes the tent goes outside the pack, or on top, so it can be removed and set up in case of a blizzard without having to open the pack to the weather until its inside the tent. I used to have an huge 8 ounce liner bag for a northface pack, so you would leave a frozen pack outside or in the vestibule and pull the clean dry liner bag into your tent. it doubled as a bivy footsack.

Everything else gets tossed into the small pocket on top of the pack (and its mostly empty). And no I don't have even one stuff sack.
Jim
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These are my own opinions based on wisdom earned through many wrong decisions. Your mileage may vary.