Honestly, there are worse ways to cheese at Level 2-4 than stealth. All you need is a portable explosive barrel and Astarion's fire arrow cantrip.
What gets me is that stealth is not fun to play.
Yeah … I know others have also said it, and I agree … barrelmancy doesn’t bother me nearly as much as stealth. I mean, I guess you could make it so explosive barrels could only be moved and not actually picked up, which I think might already the case for some objects like rocks? That would make shifting them any distance extremely tedious. I’m not desperately keen to rain on the parade of anyone who enjoys using barrels for cheesing, though, as I can quite easily ignore the fact that I can run around with and effectively teleport barrels and instead just use them when I consider “fair” (ie when they’re already near or on the battlefield).
Whereas, as you say, given the way they’re implemented, we
can’t actually use ambush and stealth in combat in a way that feels smooth, fair or fun. And I really think we should be able to.
