I just posted in another thread that I am totally shocked there aren't more toggles and sliders in the native experience. I mean since this game is mostly a single player experience and it is obvious that it is relatively easy to create a mod with sliders and toggles for most of this stuff (The Bannerlord Tweaks mod is a prime example), why the hell didn't the developers just put in tons of sliders and toggles so the play could easily tweak his experience?
I mean just add an advanced configuration screen with toggles and sliders that allow you to set party wages, max party size, max garrisons, rate skill progression, tournament rewards, death, birth, aging rate, things that only affect companions, things that only affect the player, cost of items, enable special loot drop and the rate they drop at, smithing stamina recharge rates, how easy it is for lords to escape, frequency of wars, etc, etc. I mean all these are just parameters in the game and can easily be tweaked and in most cases, there only needs to be a UI and a few lines of code to actually overwrite and change any of these parameters. It shouldn't even be that hard to do and it leaves the player to determine what sort of game play experience they want and enjoy. Hell Taleworlds could pretty much wash their hands of trying to balance things, just provide some sort of decent default settings then let the player go wild changing things up to their hearts content.