I don't have time to sift through it all, but I think I found your problem: "We've played on hard till the beginning, and we've enjoyed the challenge."

As for the difficulty, I have to apologize because I know the type of gamer that LETS a game like DOS get too easy for them. Stop doing it, resist the urge to clean each town of everything, stop re-loading on that boss/chest until you get OP items, accept failures in fights/stealing/dialog, maybe keep the secrets vendor a tiny bit more secret, did you really have to kill all those NPCs eventhough you successfully struck a deal, you're telling me nobody in the entire game knows you're the burglar who took EVERY SINGLE painting and sold them IN TOWN... I mean come on, I see you people.

Stop abusing the game so heavily and wondering where the challenge went. Honestly save the song and dance about how you play X build because its harder, or ways you personally justify you dumb dicking the game in several areas. Maybe its your co-op buddy, just mention it at least and get some of the challenge back.

If you're simply suggesting a Impossible game mod, built into the game, I of course agree with you. It's just obvious they wanted to hand the reigns over to the modding community. I like to hope it frees them up for make DLC and further the series.