I don't get what you're saying.
No way you could have great loot in the non-enhanced version. I played it, it was random but the level was region-dependent (as now).
And you could have shit loot aswell.
Nothing's changed in that regard, could give a specific example?
Wrong. I've played through the original on every level of difficulty, and you would get at least one gold/orange/exceptional item in each of the situations I mentioned. Now, I got cloth scraps and iron bars. The best thing I got out of Baron Dietrick and his entire retinue, was a crappy blue-rated crossbow. The two "King's Chests" contained non-magical tripe.