It does not take away the value of using a shield. Try charging two handed against a band of forest bandits without a shield and tell me how that works out for you. Especially if you're not running late-game armor and 1/3 damage taken. You'll get rekt because ranged enemies are a significant threat in bannerlord compared to warband, and that's fine. You can't really do a 1 man army here, and that's fine.
But having auto-block as a toggleable option in SP wouldn't affect players who don't want the reduced challenge in the slightest, and also wouldn't take away the value of shields themselves. So please let's just call this discussion a day, simply recognize at least some players would like this feature back and move on with our lives, shall we?
