There is much goodness in what you have described.
What you call the ‘C major construct’ conventional terms would call it as C being the parent major scale.
Your mention of the modal root note being played as a drone is an important one.
In my modes topic, I expand on the differences between building modal chord progressions as opposed to the common-and-garden everyday major or minor chord progressions we hear all the time. Starting from this post
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