Looking good, Love the steps as an addition! Makes the pool pet and wildlife friendly as well in case of accidental tumbles.

Are you going saltwater or chlorine injection for your water treatment management?

Reason I ask is that if going the latter, while you have your side weir (skimmer basket) exposed is a great opportunity to tie in all the chlorine lines from the injector. Put in a bulkhead fitting of the appropriate size into the weir and have automatic chlorine dispensing, below water line, and invisible to the pool proper. You can bury all the piping before the back fill.

As an aside, I also used the side weir to tie in a flush mount, under water led pool light on my vinyl pool that throws an amazing light display in the evening. Routed the 12 vdc wiring through another watertight bulkhead fitting in the weir above the skimmer basket itself.

Not sure if you were adding a light in your upgrade, but highly recommend it..