One of the things I hated the most in DoS was not being able to rob merchants all the time.
I always play morally gray Rogues, so getting rich and obtaining op gear early is something that I love to do in these games. So please, do not change stealing mechanics.
For people that don't like it, just don't roll a rogue, or don't get proficiency with sleight of hand.
Knowing stealing is this simple is a big downer to me just like knowing a way to one shot kill everything I came across would be. It's easy to say "don't do it then" but then you just feel like a chump doing everything the hard way. You can't un-know stuff like this.
PS: Stealing from people to line your own pockets is not morally gray my dude. That's pretty deep into the black end of the pool.
