I have had no problems getting my skills up. I don't get the complaints. I am not using anything that makes getting skills/leveling up faster and I have multiple skills at or around 300 and many over 200. Wasn't that difficult for me? My character is now 51 so I have been playing a while, and my first 2 children have reached adulthood (with 2 more soon to reach adulthood). Everything seems to be working well for me and I am enjoying the game (with a few important mods of course, like diplomacy, the true series of mods, etc.)