To make it a bit bearable you can simply use any companions with you as stamina for dismantling or refining parts each one has another 100 stamina you can tap into. Just click your Icon below the difficulty meter. Most of all though, remember this is in no doubt at all an early access game aka welcome to alpha testing!!!! Stuff WILL NOT be finished or FINAL and some things could just be placeholder like a good amount of the tavern scenes. I also theorize that all the lords might end up with a voice. As one of the female nobles for the khazuit(Pretty sure I killed the spelling here.) have some voice lines.
Also seems to me that they are not focused too much on balancing issues right now. But Save issues and from the looks of the forum, other technical problems. Before moving on, I could be completely wrong but judging by the in-progress and solved tags so far. This is just what I have inferred.
So far there has been at least one patch a day. Which is a lot more than I initially hoped for. Right now I am just messing around with all the factions and mechanics. So that when the game is finally stable I can start a real campaign I have found a couple of things easy to get right now that snowball the player's industries fairly early on.