Idk why you say that. Calradia IS a fictional world. Real world, historic feats, realism... the game is not set to stone on this rules. As a fictional world can be anything devs want it to be. If you want a Calradia set in year 300 with dragons and ninja robots, you can make it. So, why do you want to limit the creativeness of the game by following real world rules? This is a videogame, and a fictional world also.
This is not 11th century Europe, It's a fantasy realm in a fantasy world. Real time dates and historic feats doesn't mean anything to bannerlord but small inspiration.
You are playing with new beta branch, so the 40hrs thing does not enter here.
I mean with the previous patch and i highly doubt that as i am 10hrs in my new playthrough and barely got 100 in riding (my most focused skill)
Most campaigns won't be 100+ hours long, even if you take all the map. And that will be to get ONE SKILL to 275, man, i dont know you but i want to do other campaigns and other things in my life besides playing bannerlord.
Idk about that. Everything works flawlessly except for the XP points that i mentioned.