I really hope that some of this over the top behaviour is just for EA, to make the game seem more playable and exciting because we're limited to tier 1 and there aren't any difficulty levels implemented. Once more high-level stuff is added there will hopefully be less reason to make the first act so high-powered. But how slowly things are changing in EA does worry me, feels like the release version won't be too different to what we have now (hope I'm wrong!).
