The problem isn't players dying, but that combat is too easy for players against AI.
It's not that it's easy, it's just not satisfying.
Despite all the hype about surfaces, there's actually very little clever stuff you can do and with how easy it is to generate your own surfaces using them in clever ways is completely devalued.
No small part of this is also that chaining CC reigns supreme and a general lack of viable alternatives to magical surface abuse.
Eh, I mean, it does make things easy and that translates to not being satisfying. So one begets the other. The comment on surfaces & CC reigning supreme is also true.
