I made an overhaul new thread about Difficulty here for greater visibility because it's a real wall of text that I think is quite exaustive: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=922161#Post922161

I think there's plenty to talk about.

He who breaks a thing to understand what it is, has left the path of reason.

J.R.R TOLKIEN