*sighs* the difficulty slider is not even working yet, you do know this right?
Also you mentioned play through..so you know pretty much where to go and what to get. New players who will be buying and playing the game for the first time will not know this..If Larian made the game for just a small handful of people..their sales would be horrible O.O
Wait until the difficulty slider is working~
Personally, I think that the difficulty that is associated with not knowing the the game features or understanding how to use them isn't difficulty, but ignorance. Ignorance is not a proper measurement of challenge in a game.
For instance, chess does not become easier because you learned how all the pieces move. Understanding how to play the game is required from the start and the challenge is in each play of the game, not if someone forgot a rule or how a particular piece moves.
If the game becomes easy once someone knows all the rules and features, then it was never difficult in the first place. Rules don't make a game difficult, that difficulty is in the persons ability to learn the system which is irrelevant to actual game play.